4.4% of the results are dangerous
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If the search engines have improved safety results they display, the risk is still not zero.
According to Ben Edelman, a security expert at McAfee, 4.4% of research results offered by search engines may present a serious security risk. A figure that is still falling sharply, as was 12% in May.
The dangerous results of which are the expert about classified sites in alert level  " red" or  " yellow" at McAfee SiteAdvisor. Classification is made based spyware, viruses, pop-up abusive, spam, or other celebrations of its kind, the site can send to his visitor.
The 4.4% figure comes from a study conducted in 2500 popular keywords search on the top 5 search engines on the Net: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.
And the risk is even greater if the user clicks on a search result advertising, commercials that make up the bulk of revenues from these search engines, according to researcher at McAfee. The risk is doubled for those who click on search results for adult (pornography), the study finds. Finally, it increases more when the research include the word  " free" (free).
Research are therefore risky, but dramatically reduced by the efforts of search engines, which do not hesitate to warn the user if the site displayed a risk for him.
Source: PCimpact .
