Survey shows Hong Kong’s websites the worlds riskiest

Hong Kong websites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads, viruses and spam, research from McAfee has found.
According to McAfee more than 19 percent of websites using the “.hk” domain pose a security threat to visitors. China based sites are the second most risky with 11 percent, while those from Finland and Japan are the two safest. Romanian and Russian sites were also a threat to web users.
Last year, the survey ranked Hong Kong as only the 28th most risky internet location.
The survey looked at 9.9 million well-visited websites in 265 countries and ranked them by the amount of adware, spyware, viruses and spam, excessive pop-ups, browser exploits or links to other problem sites. The generic domain name “.info” was considered the most problematic while the survey found “.gov” to be the safest.
Hong Kong and China are often cited as the source of much of the worlds spam.