McAfee reported that. HK and. cn domain names are the most dangerous. gov safest

Intermediary transaction SEO diagnosis Taobao guest Cloud host technology Hall

According to foreign media reports, when browsing the web, not all the site's safety factor is the same. McAfee, a famous anti-virus software manufacturer, recently released a report titled "The Mapping The Mal Web". This is the second year in a row that McAfee publishes such reports.

In that report, McAfee found through the survey that because the company responsible for assigning domain names in the process of reviewing domain name applicants, the importance of security information is not consistent, which leads to different domain name Web site safety factor is not the same, where the minimum safety factor of the domain name is ". HK" (Hong Kong), ". Cn" (Mainland China) and The web site at the end of the. info (information).

McAfee said in its report that of the domain names ending with ". HK", 19.2% of the sites would pose a risk or potential risk to visitors, compared to 11.8% and 11.7% for the domain names ending with ". cn" and ". Info". The risk ratio of the world's most common ". com" sites is slightly higher than 5%. McAfee's report also notes that other high risk domains include ". Ro" (Romania) and ". Ru" (Russia), with a 6.8% and 6% per cent risk sites.

Some domain name registration companies in order to increase profits and improve the visibility of the domain name applicants to reduce the security requirements, which led to more spammers, malicious code makers and other cyber criminals to the Internet through the registration of domain names and establish their own base. McAfee did not specify in the report which domain name registration companies should be responsible for such incidents.

There are a large number of companies around the world to carry out domain name registration business, some companies are large and well-known, and some companies are small and unknown, so these small companies often provide low-cost domain names, while the security background of a cursory review or do not review, in order to attract more customers. Many of the Internet spam or malicious information manufacturers are registered through these small companies domain names. At the same time, the ". HK" and ". CN" Web site servers are not necessarily in China, because site operators can apply for registration of different domain names anywhere in the world.

Shahn Kitz Shane Keats, one of the leading authors of the McAfee Research analyst, "Find a malicious Web site" report, said that the number of dangerous domain names at the end of ". HK" and ". cn" Over the past year has increased because, on the one hand, compared to last year, McAfee has done a better job of collecting data on these domains, and on the other hand, there are obvious security vulnerabilities in the review process for some domain name registrars. "The advice I'm going to make to internet users is that even if you really want to buy cheap Prozac or other medications at the end of the. CN website, I suggest you not to do that," Kitts said. Never do that. Find the Prozac you want in a different place. "The reason why Kitts cited Prozac is that many dangerous websites are covered with drugs.

McAfee obtained this report by testing 9.9 million sites in 265 different domains. The test includes whether the site contains malicious code, whether it pops up too many ads, and whether it is used as a tool to get the email address and sell spam.

McAfee's report indicates that the domain name with the highest safety factor is:

-". gov" (government agencies), the proportion of dangerous websites is only 0.05%;

-". JP" (Japan), the proportion of dangerous websites is only 0.1%;

--". Au" (Australia), the proportion of dangerous websites is only 0.3%. (Compile/Beckham)