Light at the end of the battle against malicious site makers
The malicious scriptwriters out there are churning out what they can to make you click on their site, but according to the report below, a lot of you didn’t fall for their shenanigans:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.
“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”
With the right combination of increased user knowledge on such sites and quick data updating by leaders of the internet security sector, these malicious sites will never be visited again.
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