Hong Kong's Website the World's Riskiest:Survey

Hong Kong websites are the most likely to hit visitors with unwanted ads,viruses and spam,research from McAfee,an internet security company has found.According to McAfee more than 19 per cent of websites using the ".hk" domain name 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 threats to Web Users.Last year,the survey ranked Honk Kong as only the 28th most risky internet location.
The study looked at 9.9 million well-visited websites in 265 countries and ranked them by the amount of adware,spyware,viruses,spam,excessive pop-ups,browser exploits or links to other problem sites.The generic domain name "-info" was considered the most problematic,the survey found,while "-gov" was the safest.
Hong kong and China are often cited as the source of much of the world' spam unwanted e-mail messages that fill computers user's inboxes.