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**McAfee:11.7% of all .info websites pose a MAJOR security threat to your computer **

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Here is the link to the McAfee analysis:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208402153

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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...
 
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nonsense, it's the content of the site, not the URL.
 
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