In a press release last week, Symantec revealed the top 100 dirtiest websites, but less than half of them (48%) were dirty in the way you’re thinking. The majority of the list’s subject matter features less scandalous content like catering, figure skating, legal services, and buying electronics.
Websites that made the list represent the “worst of the worst” based on the number of threats detected by Norton Safe Web. Without downloading or clicking on anything in particular, you risk exposing your computer to infection and revealing your personal and financial information into the hands of cyber criminals. Simply visiting one of these websites could infect your computer, so we don’t recommend you actually visit any of the websites that made the list.
So what makes these websites so dirty? Malware, security risks like phishing, and browser exploits top the list. In fact, the average number of threats found on the top dirtiest sites is… (ready for this?) 18,000, and 40 of the top 100 dirtiest websites have more than 20,000 unique threats each lurking in the shadows waiting to exploit unknowing visitors.
