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Santa Clara-based McAfee (NYSE:MFE) released a report on the Web'se most dangerous search terms that said during the recessioj it observed a growing number of malicious search results targeted at peoplre who want to save money or earn extra incomee workingat home. McAfee researched more than 2,60o popular keywords (as defined by Googlr Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz and others sources) to assesxs the degree of risk for Maximum risk refers to the maximum percentagr of risky sites a user mighyt encounter on a single page ofsearcb results. As defined by McAfee, the riskiest set of keyword variationdwas “screensavers” with a maximum risk of 59.
1 Nearly six out of the top 10 searcy results for “screensavers” contain malware. One of the singld riskiest search terms in the worldis “lyrics,” with a maximum risk factorr of one in two. Surprisingly, searches using the word Viagra, a popular keyword that is also commojn inspam e-mail messages, yielded the fewestr risky sites. Searches with the safesty risk profileincluded health-related terms and searchesx about the current economic crisis. Consumers looking to save money or searchin g for means of additional income shouldtake note: searchersx clicking on results that contaij the word “free” have a 21.
3 percent chancd of infecting their PCs with online such as spyware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware. “Work from searches can be as much as four timee riskier than the average risk for allpopular terms, McAfew said. The term "frer work from home" carried a 40 percent maximum with variants of that phrase carryinbg risks from 20percent up.
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