Company names risky Web domains (CNN)

SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- When surfing the Internet for safe Web sites, not all domains are equal.

A report to be released Wednesday by antivirus software vendor McAfee Inc. says companies that assign addresses for Web sites appear to be cutting corners on security more when they assign names in certain domains than in others.

McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information). Of all ".hk" sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of ".cn" sites and 11.7 percent of ".info" sites that way. A little more than 5 percent of the sites under the ".com" domain -- the world's most popular were identified as dangerous.

Source: cnn.com

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