The top five domains ranked in terms of the prevalence of dangerous downloads are .info; .ro; .ws; .biz; and .cn.
Web sites registered in top-level domains tied to Hong Kong (.hk), China (.cn), and the Philippines (.ph) are the most likely to pose a security threat to visitors, according to a study released on Wednesday by McAfee.
McAfee's "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" distills data from 9.9 million Web sites in 265 top-level Internet domains -- generic ones and national ones. From that information, a list of 74 domains containing at least 2,000 sites was compiled and rated for risk based on the prevalence of malware.
To read the article, click
here