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California-based McAfee (NYSE:MFE) released a report on the Web'sd most dangerous search terms that said during the recession it observee a growing number of malicious search results targeted at peoplwe who want to save money or earn extra incomee workingat home. McAfee researche more than 2,600 popular keywords (as defined by Googld Zeitgeist, Yahoo Buzz and otherd sources) to assess the degree of risk for each. Maximuj risk refers to the maximum percentage of risky sites a user might encounter on a single page of search As definedby McAfee, the riskiestf set of keyword variations was “screensavers” with a maximunm risk of 59.1 percent.
Nearlyy six out of the top 10 search results for contain malware. One of the singlde riskiest search terms in the worldis “lyrics,” with a maximuk risk factor of one in two. Surprisingly, searchews using the word Viagra, a popular keyword that is also commo n inspam e-mail messages, yieldedr the fewest risky sites. Searchew with the safest risk profilrincluded health-related terms and searches aboutt the current economic crisis. Consumers lookintg to save money or searching for means of additionapl income shouldtake note: searchers clicking on results that contain the word “free” have a 21.
3 percent chancew of infecting their PCs with online threats, such as spam, phishing, adware, viruses and other malware. “Workm from home” searches can be as much as four timese riskier than the average risk for allpopular terms, McAfees said. The term "fre work from home" carried a 40 percent maximum risk, with variants of that phrase carrying risks from 20percent up.