Monday, August 24, 2009

The Most Dangerous Websites for your PC Enlisted


Norton Symantec an Internet Security company has come with new threat of showing a list of Top 100 Dirtiest Sites, which could affect your computer with malware. Malware is software that compromise or destroys the computer system without the proprietor’s consent. The anitvirus antivirus company professionals said that even visiting those websites, which could bring hazardous to the computer by providing the personal information of the computer to the unwanted people.

It is very hard to realize by the internet browser to find the malware running on the dangerous website. By simply viewing the website will bring down information on a page, where the malware stars to run in the page and begin to damage the computer. The list was accumulated with the help of global data gathered on Norton Safe web, a site that determines the website’s security risks. Some of the sample websites from the lists of Norton is 17ebook.com, aladel.net, bpwhamburgorchardpark.org, clicnews.com, dfwdiesel.net, divineenterprises.net.

The affected sites had on average of 18,000 threats. However, 40 percentages of the sites had more than 20,000 threats, while 75 percentages of sites on the lists are spreading the malware for over six months. Most of the websites in the lists had contents for adults with unprinted names that may contain hardcore pornography. This has also included by the other sites on ice skating, catering, deer hunting and legal services. The personal information of the computer can be obtained by hackers using keystroke logging software from both Mac computers and PCs. Due to the hackers, there is rapid increase in the cyber crime.

In order to protect your computers from hackers and malware, it is very important to educate yourself. The creation of viruses and getting in the media is mainly focused on earning the money. Hence it is good to protect our computers from those dangerous websites and Hackers.

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