Comments on: The Most Risky Web Locales http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/04/2488/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: EFlight http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/04/2488/#comment-296575 EFlight Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:32:26 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2488#comment-296575 Where can one get hold of this list? Where can one get hold of this list?

]]> By: Points of Interest for the 6th of June, 2008 | Joel Falconer http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/04/2488/#comment-296311 Points of Interest for the 6th of June, 2008 | Joel Falconer Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:34:34 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2488#comment-296311 [...] The Most Risky Web Locales by Samuel Dean: Where should you be careful when you’re online? That’s the question that McAfee Research has tackled in its newly released report The Most Dangerous Domains to Surf and Search on the Web. The report seeks to pin down which general types of domains give you a good chance of picking up malware, and gets into which parts of the world those domains are usually associated with. [...] [...] The Most Risky Web Locales by Samuel Dean: Where should you be careful when you’re online? That’s the question that McAfee Research has tackled in its newly released report The Most Dangerous Domains to Surf and Search on the Web. The report seeks to pin down which general types of domains give you a good chance of picking up malware, and gets into which parts of the world those domains are usually associated with. [...]

]]> By: Joel Falconer http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/04/2488/#comment-296181 Joel Falconer Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:12:23 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2488#comment-296181 Interesting stuff. I wonder where the best balance between monitoring domain registrations and retaining internet privacy and freedom lies? It's a tricky question, one that's likely to step on people's toes on both sides of the debate. Interesting stuff. I wonder where the best balance between monitoring domain registrations and retaining internet privacy and freedom lies? It’s a tricky question, one that’s likely to step on people’s toes on both sides of the debate.

]]> By: rick http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/04/2488/#comment-296179 rick Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:40:59 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2488#comment-296179 useless study though and, please, do a little more analysis. The risk of getting infected went up 45%!! Oh noes!! Except, according to an information week article and the study: "The overall prevalence of exploit code on Web sites -- one factor of several used to calculate overall risk-- remains relatively low at 0.07%." .07%!? um... so it was about .05% and now it's .07%? Sigh... Yeah, keep your AV software up to date and use good security practices. But let's not get all alarmist. useless study though and, please, do a little more analysis. The risk of getting infected went up 45%!! Oh noes!! Except, according to an information week article and the study:

“The overall prevalence of exploit code on Web sites — one factor of several used to calculate overall risk– remains relatively low at 0.07%.”

.07%!? um… so it was about .05% and now it’s .07%? Sigh…

Yeah, keep your AV software up to date and use good security practices. But let’s not get all alarmist.

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