Tracking the worst of web.


	Tracking the worst of web.

techmine

3-14-2007 1:08 PM

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internet, spam, analysis, mcafee

techmine says:

This is a good analysis of the bad and good about the websites across the globe. Russian and Romanian domains are the most risky ones. That means a lot of things. One of them being, if you register to some of these sites, the percentage of risk (spam,phishing,virus) is lot higher than others.

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