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World's top Internet domains hosting virus

Last updated on: February 13, 2013 10:24 IST

Image: A man uses his iPad tablet in Rome, Italy.
Photographs: Tony Gentile/Reuters

Today, the most common way of getting hit by malware is by browsing the Internet. It hasn't always been this way. Years ago, floppy disks were the main malware vector. Then sharing of executable files. Then e-mail attachments. But for the past five years, the Internet has been the main source of malware, according to a new report by F-Secure, an anti-virus, cloud content and computer security company based in Helsinki, Finland.

There is no exploit without a vulnerability. Ultimately, vulnerabilities are just bugs, that is, programming errors. We have bugs because programmes are written by human beings, and human beings make mistakes. Software bugs have been a problem for as longs as we have had programmable computers - and they are not going to disappear, it says.

Let's take a look at top domains hosting malware, a software used or created by attackers to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.

Source: F-Secure

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Mail. ru

Description: Blog hosting, file hosting, various services

Global rank in malware hosting: 1

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Image: A woman looks at her iPad tablet in Milan, Italy.
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Letitbit.net

Description: File hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 2

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Image: A model is reflected in a mirror while she reads her iPad in New York.
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Cloudfront.net

Description: Content hosting and delivery, various services

Global rank in malware hosting: 3

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Image: People surf the web during a campus party in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Dropbox.com

Description: File hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 4

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Image: People use their mobile phones to surf Internet in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Hotfile.com

Description: File hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 5

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Image: A girl walks upstairs at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover, Germany.
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Fc2.com

Description: Blog hosting, file hosting, various services

Global rank in malware hosting: 6

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Image: Tourists use an iPad tablet in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum, Italy.
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Google.com

Description: Document hosting, file hosting, search engine, various services

Global rank in malware hosting: 7

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Image: Women use smartphones in front of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy.
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Comcast.net

Description: Site hosting, various services

Global rank in malware hosting: 8

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Image: A woman surfs the Internet in San Francisco, California.
Photographs: Noah Berger/Reuters

Sendspace.com

Description: File hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 9

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Image: A woman uses her mobile phone to surf the Internet in central London.
Photographs: Olivia Harris/Reuters

4shared.com

Description: File hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 10

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Image: A Google employee works on a laptop in front of a mural of the New York City skyline, at the New York City company office.
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Blogspot.de

Description: Blog hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 11

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Image: A woman uses her Apple iPhone 4 smartphone for web surfing in Seoul, South Korea.
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Amazonaws.com

Description: General hosting, web services, various other services

Global rank in malware hosting: 12

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Image: A woman checks the Internet in Beijing.
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Sapo.pt

Description: Site hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 13

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Image: A man surfs the Internet using a wireless connection in the lobby of a hotel in Havana, Cuba.
Photographs: Desmond Boylan/Reuters

Ucoz.com

Description: Site hosting

Global rank in malware hosting: 14

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