McAfee is guarding on the Internet threats
McAfee,s SiteAdvisor Tool is a free and very useful tool especially designed for protecting home computer users that are using the Internet.
The tool shows the risky sites and categorizes them on three parts:green-which means they are safe;yellow-sites require caution,because although they pass all the tests,they contain an annoying quantity of pop-ups;red-the sites contain spyware,adware and viruses,the risk is maximum.The colours have the same symbolistics as the lights from the streets for the auto drivers.
In the free version of SiteAdvisor, users are steered away from the riskiest sites. A paid version of SiteAdvisor disables all interactions with dangerous sites.The tool is vailable to be donwloaded at www.mcafee.com.
Romania and Russia counter the most dangerous sites,sites that can contain adware,spyware and viruses. About 5.6 percent of sites in the Romania domain (.ro) are risky, as are 4.5 percent in Russia (.ru).But the .tk domains overbeats on risk everything.These domains of the tiny island of Tokelau are suspicious in proportion of 10.1%.
The least risky country domains are Finland (.fi, 0.10 percent), Norway (.no, 0.16 percent), Sweden (.se, 0.21 percent), Iceland (.is, 0.19 percent) and Ireland (.ie, 0.11 percent).
.gov was the only domain with no risky sites out of the 265 top-level domains tested.
Symantec contradicts McAfee,saying USA is the king land of hackers »A recent security report of McAfee said that the most dangerous internet domains from the world come...The kinds of functionality offered by SiteAdvisor will eventually “be folded into a larger tool for the enterprise,” according to Natalie Lambert, an analyst with industry watcher Forrester Research.
She said that, while it might add some additional protection against phishing sites, SiteAdvisor as a standalone was intended primarily for consumers and wouldn’t be that useful for businesses.
Andrew Jaquith, an analyst with The Yankee Group, offered a different take. “The SiteAdvisor tool is extremely useful for employees to know what risk is involved in their Web surfing,” he said. He noted that employees have been known to go to sites on company time that are not business-related.
“I do find the study to be a bit of ‘fun facts’ to know,” he said. Since few people notice domains, he said it might have been better to have this kind of information broken down by type of site, such as entertainment, adult, games, or “get rich quick” sites.
Source:http://www.topix.net/tech/spyware
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