The Web's Most Dangerous Keywords to Search For
Written on 5/29/2009 07:16:00 AM by Marc Crow
Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It’s “screensavers” with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent and has the highest risk percentage of exposing users to malware and fraudulent web sites, according to McAfee’s recently released report “The Web’s Most Dangerous Search Terms“.
More resutls:
* The categories with the worst maximum risk profile were lyrics keywords (26.3%) and phrases that include the word “free” (21.3%). If a consumer landed at the riskiest search page for a typical lyrics search, one of four results would be risky
* The categories with the worst average risk profile were also lyrics sites (5.1%) and “free” sites (7.3%)
* The categories with the safest risk profile were health-related search terms and searches concerning the recent economic crisis. The maximum risk on a single page of queries on the economy was 3.5% and only 0.5% risky across all results. Similarly, even the worst page for health queries had just 4.0% risky sites and just 0.4% risk overall
This kind of goes back and confirms some of the things I mentioned in a post in March about Spyware Prevention.
Read the full PDF of "The Web's Most Dangerous Search Terms"
VIA: ZDNet
