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Part of the problem is that registering a domain in China is extremely cheap and encouraged. So people register sites for pocket change and there is very little checking. China is a growing economy but it does not have the level of sophistication in security as Western nations do.

The top domains ranked in terms of the prevalence of dangerous downloads are .info, the generic information domain, with 21.95%, Hong Kong at 19.2 percent, Russia's .ro at 14.18 percent, Samoa's .ws at 12.5 percent, the business domain .biz at 11.64 percent and .cn at 10.75 percent.

Last year's worst offender, the tiny South Pacific island Tokelau (.tk), really cleaned up its act. It went from first place to 28 out of 74 after revising its policy to allow unlimited, free, anonymous registration of .tk domains.

"Vast parts of the Web are quite safe to visit, but many neighborhoods -- big ones and small ones -- put every visitor at risk of an online mugging," said the McAfee report, which is available in PDF format.