China hosts almost half of all malware sites

04/09/2007 by swordfish.

According to a report released on Monday by antivirus company Sophos, China — including Hong Kong — hosted 44.8 percent of the world’s infected sites in August 2007. The US ranked a distant second, hosting 20.8 percent of websites that contain malicious code.

The number of infected web pages has also grown. Sophos said that it detected an average of 5,000 new infected pages each day in the month of August.

The company warned that simply staying clear of sites hosted in the top three countries of China, the US and Russia was not an effective method of avoiding malware.

Sophos also warned against a sharp rise in spam pointing people to these infected sites. Malicious senders, in an attempt to bypass attachment virus scanners, are using messages that direct users to websites with malicious code. Computers get infected when users click on the links in the email message.

Source: ZDNET

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