McAfee maps risky Web domains

Shakil published 13 Mar 2007, 18:48 in main - 242 views

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A map unveiled Monday by McAfee Inc. and based on data from its SiteAdvisor service paints Russia and Romania deep red as the countries whose domains are most likely to host "drive-by" exploits.

McAfee SiteAdvisor, a free-of-charge plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox, rates sites on several criteria, including dangerous downloads, spam tendencies and hosted exploits. It then posts green, yellow and red icons on search results obtained from Google, Yahoo or MSN.

McAfee applied the results of its site scanning to come up with the Flash-based map, which will be updated monthly.

News source: ComputerPartner

Tags: McAfee, Maps Risky, Web Domains

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