Web sites ending with the Hong Kong domain “.hk” are the most dangerous places to surf on the Internet, a report by Internet security company McAfee Inc says.
The report, published on Wednesday in California, said 19.15 percent of all Web sites ending with “.hk” pose a security threat to Web users.
The percentage took Hong Kong to the top of the risky domain list, a jump of 28 places compared with the same report last year and knocking the tiny island of Tokelau in the South Pacific off the No. 1 spot.
China is the second most risky domain in the world, with 11.76 percent of Web sites ending with “.cn” found to be risky, compared with 3.73 percent last year, McAfee said.
Finland (.fi) remained the safest place to surf for the second year running with 0.05 percent of sites considered risky.
Japan also fared well, with “.jp” earning the title of the world’s second safest domain with 0.13 percent sites deemed risky compared with 0.4 percent last year.
Using its SiteAdvisor technology, McAfee analyzed 9.9 million heavily trafficked Web sites in 265 countries as well as generic domains such as “.com” or “.net”.
It tested for risky behavior such as browser exploits, adware and spyware, Trojans, viruses and the likelihood of receiving spam and aggressive pop-up marketing.
In the Asia region, Hong Kong and China were followed by the Philippines (.ph) as the third most risky place with 7.72 percent of sites posing a threat, South Korea (.kr) in seventh place with 2.39 percent, Vietnam (.vn) in 10th place with 1.96 percent, Taiwan (.tw) 12th with 1.47 percent and Thailand (.th) 15th with 0.95 percent.
Indonesia (.id) fared better in 17th place with 0.61 percent of sites being designated risky, followed by Malaysia (.my) in 18th place with 0.4 percent and New Zealand in 19th with 0.34 percent.
Singapore (.sg) and Australia (.au) were joint second safest domains in Asia with 0.27 percent of sites considered to pose security threats, McAfee said.
The most risky generic domain was “.info”, with 11.8 percent of all these sites posing a security risk, McAfee found, while “.gov” remained the safest.
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