Dirtiest Sites in the Web

Oct 26
08:51

2009

Angeline Mabute

Angeline Mabute

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Internet has been a part of the everyday lives for most of us. People tend to be online to communicate with everyone, shop, bank, etc. With many people using the Internet, comes different websites to visit. They enjoy the pleasure of being in the web for so long without considering whether the sites are safe or not. But people should be careful enough not to engage with sites that will deceive them, steal their personal information or harm their computers.

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Internet has been a part of the everyday lives for most of us. People tend to be online to communicate with everyone,Dirtiest Sites in the Web Articles shop, bank, etc.  With many people using the Internet, comes different websites to visit. They enjoy the pleasure of being in the web for so long without considering whether the sites are safe or not. But people should be careful enough not to engage with sites that will deceive them, steal their personal information or harm their computers.

Norton Safe Web, Symantec’s Web site rating service created as site called "Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009”. They include 100 “worst of the worst” sites detected with high number of threats as of August 2009.

It is not surprising that 48% of the Dirtiest Web sites include adult content.  Some of the sites do not seem risky at all and they treat topics such as catering, deer hunting, figure skating, legal services, and buying electronics. The most common threat found in the Dirtiest list is Malware - especially viruses - followed by security risks and browser exploits. Just clicking or visiting a site with all these threats will put your computer at risk of being infected. The worse of all, identity thieves will be able to access your personal and financial information.

Research made by Symantec shows that online threats are increasing and evolving as cybercriminals find new more ways to steal assets, identity and money. The sites on the Dirtiest list have an average of 18,000 threats per site while 40 of the sites have in excess of 20,000 threats.

Here are some of the Dirtiest Web Sites:
• 17ebook.com – 118 threats
• aladel.net – 32939 threats
• clicnews.com – 8564 threats
• fantasticfilms.ru – 4779 threats
• ginedis.com – 15127 threats
• hdvideoforums.org – 5722 threats
• hihanin.com – 7241 threats
• kingfamilyphotoalbum.com – 10999 threats
• mactep.org  – 16594  threats
• marbling.pe.kr – 9138 threats
• nacjalneg.info – 3624 threats
• pronline.ru – 5909 threats
• purplehoodie.com – 11235 threats
• qsng.cn – 48 threats
• seksburada.net – 1505 threats
• stock888.cn – 122 threats
• tathli.com – 812 threats
• teamclouds.com – 10123 threats
• xnescat.info – 3624 threats
• yt118.com – 4438 threats
Source: http://safeweb.norton.com/

Unfortunately, it is not enough to keep far away from these identified sites. There are many other sites which are not in this list and look quite safe but can give your computer and yourself major problems. The most common threat found in the Dirtiest list is Malware and specially viruses, Techie Now will be happy to removed them for you.

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