Risky websites get a billion visits a month
March 7, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service
Web users make a billion visits every month to websites of dubious character, according to an MIT survey.
SiteAdvisor, a company spun-off by computer security researchers from MIT, has also launched a web browser add-on that automatically checks the reputation of a site against its database. It can be downloaded as a free trial.