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A global study by cybersecurity group McAfee ranked Singapore's websites ranked 10/104 among websites most at risk of being exposed to viruses when accessed.

This is an alarming security degradation when Singapore's websites were ranked 67th last year. According to Straitstimes , the same position as Singapore is the site from Easy to get virus when entering website with tail.sg Picture 1 Cameroon and China. This rating is based on the number of compromised computers and networks in the country.

Network security expert Aloysius Cheang said: ' This will reduce confidence and the possibility that Singapore can build a platform for e-commerce .' Mr. Cheang points out that Singapore's network is very deeply connected to the global network. Domain registration in Singapore usually takes only 5 minutes of transactions.

McAfee surveyed through 17,630 websites found that about 9% (1,607 websites) were marked as dangerous. In 2008, this figure was only 0.3%.