McAfee, an antivirus and security company, has made public its report on internet security for this year. The study, called “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited,” has made available some interesting, though alarming information. It seems that chances of getting a virus or a security threat while surfing the web has increased with more than 40 percent since this time last year.

There has also been a change of places in the ‘most dangerous domain name’ top. If last year’s champion was a small island in the Pacific with about 1,500 inhabitants, Tokelau, this year the tables have turned and Hong Kong “proudly” takes the lead. Of course, it would be absurd to blame Tokelau’s population for messing around with our computers.

However, the company, which made the .tk domain name available, charged nothing for the use of it, thus making it a paradise for everyone who wanted to contribute to the growing world of computer viruses.

This year’s champ, Hong Kong, which last year found itself in the 28th place of the top, presents an incredible risk for everybody that surfs the net to get viruses or spyware from one of the sites registered with its name. It seems that 19.2 percent, or about a fifth, of the pages registered with the .hk domain name, could make you ending up wondering why your applications are acting strangely or are slowing down.

China comes second, with 11 percent of its web pages containing malware. The safest domain name belongs to Finland, only 0.05 percent risk of anything bad happening, followed closely by Japan and Norway.