McAfee rated more than 27 million domains in the report and the results are interesting:

• 5.8% of all websites are rated as risky. This is up from 4.1% in 2008;
• The top 5 riskiest domain are:
  • .CM
    The Cameroon domain space is a common typo for .COM and the report found “significant malware activity”.
  • .COM
    The world’s largest and busiest domain.
  • .CN
    China’s domain space is growing rapidly.
  • .WS
  • .INFO
• The top 5 least risky domains are:
  • .GOV
  • .EDU
  • .IE
  • .HR
• Last years riskiest domain space, .HK has improved dramatically due to enhanced fraud processing;
• Australia’s .AU is one of the world’s safest domain spaces.
• Social networking sites represent an increased risk for hacking and virus attacks as they gain in popularity and change user behaviour.

The world can often be a risky place and the web is no exception. If you’re sensible then you should be fine on the streets and on the web. We recommend:

• Never click a link from someone you don’t know or trust;
• Register your brand in all major spaces to prevent squatters;
• Change your passwords often, particularly on social networking sites;
• Use an up-to-date virus scanning tool.