- IT Pro, Monday, June 1, 2009 3 PM
SEO professionals might want to choose keyword search terms more wisely. A McAfee report analyzed risks from searching on more than 2,600 popular keywords in 2008. It turns out globally, "free,"
"screensavers," and "lyrics" and "Bebo" are most likely to contain malware.
The study suggests "screensavers" was a risky term last year, with six out of 10 search results
containing malware, while the keyword "lyrics" had a risk factor of one in two. Searchers clicking on the word "free" had a 21.3% chance of encountering an infected Web site. Among the top terms in
Britain that led to malware-laced sites were "Bebo," "Hotmail," "Yahoo Mail," "YouTube" and "iPhone."
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