Searching and Digging to trouble
McAfee has cautioned in a new study that four per cent of all search results served up by major search engines are leading users to websits offering deceptive or unwanted downloads (malware).
“With four out of five Web site visits starting with a search engine query, consumers are still exposed to hundreds of millions of risky searches per month, ” said Tim Dowling, vice president of consumer growth initiatives for McAfee SiteAdvisor.
Sponsored search result pose the major threat as they are likely to pose dangerous content. The study found that 6.9 per cent of all sponsored results linked to risky sites.
So Next time you do your search , think once before clicking on a sponsored link. The fact is that it will be hard for the users to know what and what not to click? I suggest the search engines should review the Sponsored sites inorder to make it threat free for users.
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