Symantec announced 100 dirty websites in 2009

In the list of the 100 most dirty websites of 2009 that Symantec listed, most of them are fake antivirus software websites.

Symantec used the website's security classification service - Norton Safe Web to list a list of websites that contain the most threats today. Typically, the average threat of each website is malicious, but Symantec's list finds 18,000 threats from those malicious websites.

In fact, 40 of these 100 dirty websites contain more than 20,000 dangers on each website, and 75% distribute malicious code over 6 months.

Symantec said that visiting one of these dirty websites without downloading anything or not clicking on any of the items could be poisoned by the user's computer . In addition, important personal information or financial information of users will also be in danger.

Multimedia entertainment sites and adult sites also have many threats and are also listed. Besides, the dirty web list also includes video game scams, news sites, glove retailers, etc. According to Symantec, most of the dirty websites are located in the US and China. National, German, Canadian and English.

According to Con Mallon, director of consumer product marketing for EMEA, online risks continue to increase as cyber criminals increasingly seek to hide more sophisticated things to trick users into revealing personal information to The ultimate goal is their money.

However, Symantec did not publicly list the 100 most dirty websites because of many issues related to the business activities of those websites. Because sometimes legitimate websites are hijacked by hackers, they can still handle and function normally again.