McAfee ranks world’s dodgiest domains – PCpro.co.uk: The Hong Kong domain has become the “most dangerous place to surf” according to security firm, McAfee.
The company claims that nearly one in five of the websites ending in .hk pose a security risk. Hong Kong is closely followed by China (.cn) with over 11%, the Philippines (.ph), Romania (.ro) and Russia (.ru).
Guess you better not be surfing for pr0n or looking for .torrents from those countries.
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I wouldn’t color that “fishy”. I used to run an email servers for a business. We didn’t get any problems from .ph or .ro, but .hk, .ca, and .ru were major sources of spam.
Nothing fishy about it.
There is nothing fishy here- take it from somebody who works in computer security– the Chinese domains host TONS of malware. I suspect much of it is due to pirate copies of windows not getting updates, etc.
I’m with everyone above. I think you ought to reset the meter to 1 or 2 on this one.
Is there some reason you think anything negative about China is false? And what exactly would McAfee have to gain by making such a statement if it wasn’t true? Is there some way that saying this is going to increase thier sales?
Their tool investigated five sites and one infected them…
However, McAfee rated a site as “spammy” because of spoofed email. The examples of “proof” all had IP addresses that were registered multi-national, and over 10 attempts by two different entities to contact them regarding this false listing have been ignored.
Beware their service. Based on their website postings, I am not sure they understand how email works…
I’ve actually banned most of China via IPs because of 24/7 attempts to hack my FTP/HTTP server. Most of the attempts come from Shanghai and Beijing, or through proxies located in those cities or something. Linux ftw. I don’t really care, off with their access. Since the ban hack attempts are few and far between. .ru looks to be next on the Pirate ban list. Funny thing is if they ever get in there is nothing to see unless they would like to crack 128bit encrypted files.
I am not surprised for the .cn to make the list, but finding out that the .hk being the most “dangerous” domain name baffles me quite a bit, considering that a Hong Kong business license is required or other restrictions apply when registering most of the hk extensions (.com.hk, .org.hk, etc. only .hk is opened to individuals and entities not based in Hong Kong), and that .hk are far more expensive than the generic domain names.
Well, this is exactly why I hate McAfee. Bloated software anyway.
Anyways, Most of these domain names probably do have spyware, and other horrible things attached to them. No doubt.