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Internet browsers, a threat for computing
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 | New researches for a the security company McAfee has shown that the Internet browsers are a potential threat for the security of the information. This is because the most used browsers as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask, provide dangerous and malicious sites in the result of the search or popular phrase. |
The result showed that seven out of ten free screen savers, digital screens and popular programa showed dangerous pages for the security of our systems. It is important to know the information provided by the McAfee specialists, in relation to the people who visit the Web: half the number of people who visit the web are more dangerous then they seem to be.
| Other information provided by this research showed that on the United States the users have access to around 285 millions of links provided be the browsers to have finally access to an unreliable web site. If we consider the growing pishing, we will see that many malicious pages can be promoted by other pages offered by that browser so that the circle be closed. |
Unfortunately, this situation will not stop since evil-minded people look for this popular sites to introduce malicious codes and another components used then to perform financials frauds and eventually completely control the attacked PCs.
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