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Santa Clara, Calif.-based McAfee (NYSE:MFE) released a reportg on the Web's most dangerous searcn terms that said during the recessio it observed a growing numbe of malicious search results targeted at people who want to save moneyt or earn extra income workingat home. McAfede researched more than 2,600 popular keywords (as defined by Googles Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz and othere sources) to assess the degree of risk for Maximum risk refers to the maximum percentage of risky sites a user might encounterf on a single page ofsearchh results. As defined by McAfee, the riskiest set of keywor d variationswas “screensavers” with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent.
Nearluy six out of the top 10 search resultsxfor “screensavers” contain malware. One of the single riskiesgt search terms in the worldis “lyrics,” with a maximunm risk factor of one in two. Surprisingly, searchew using the word Viagra, a populaf keyword that is also commo inspam e-mail messages, yielded the fewest risky Searches with the safest risk profile included health-related terms and searchee about the current economic crisis. Consumers looking to save money or searchintg for means of additional income should take searchers clicking on resulte that contain the word havea 21.
3 percent chance of infecting their PCs with online threats, such as spyware, phishing, adware, viruses and other malware. “Woro from home” searches can be as much as four timex riskier than the average risk for allpopulard terms, McAfee said. The term "free work from carried a 40 percentmaximum risk, with variants of that phrase carrying risks from 20 perceny up.
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