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Symantec Names 100 Most Malicious Websites

Posted 08/20/09 at 07:35:14 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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Symantec has published a list of the dirtiest 100 websites. The websites are said to contain around 18,000  threats apiece on an average. However, the average number of threats shoots up to 20,000 for the top 40 websites on the list, which has been compiled by Symantec’s Norton Safe Web service. Aladel.net, a US-based websites, alone houses 56,371 threats.

Although almost half of the websites are expectedly based around mature content, the remaining sites deal with a wide variety of subjects. Viruses dominate the list of threats found on these sites. Security risks and browser exploits are the other common threats found on them. The owners of the websites that figure on the list must be feeling a sense of elation and achievement. As for the rest of us, we now know which sites not to visit.

Image Credit: Symantec

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TAGS: Internet, virus, symantec, list, norton safe web, Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009, browser exploits
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avatarThe Irony

Submitted by arch-chancellor on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 5:15am

To view the article I had to tell NoScript to allow the page, then close the tab, then click on the link again.

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avatar  I wouldn't be surprised

Submitted by samduhman on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 4:01am

 

I wouldn't be surprised to find out Symantec has a hidden department whose soul duty is to create viruses. Gotta keep yourself revalent.

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avatarFYI

Submitted by joeyjr on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 7:51pm

joeyjr

For fun I looked up MaximumPC.COM on Symantec's website to check for any threats and found none listed for this site.

Thanks!

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avatar100? I only count 30

Submitted by jordinyc on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 7:29pm

The site only shows a "sample" of the sites. What about the other 70 sites? Or does symantec just happen to own one of them? I smell a conspiracyyyyyy XD

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avatarNew benchmark

Submitted by nmanguy on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 6:26pm

That should be another test for your antivirus reviews. AUtomate a script that will broswe to those pages, click on several links, and then see how many threats were caught. Or maybe how many were not.

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avatar amen! ---------------------

Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 08/21/2009 - 8:24am

 amen!

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