Less clicking on bad sites the better
Internet surfers feel a bit more secure nowadays as clicking on malicious sites seems to be going down. It maybe that internet search engines may have blocked them out or filtered them out to non existence:
The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.
“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”
Although it’s been declining, it’s better still be vigilant when it comes to clicking on unknown sites.