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What are the odds you'll land on a typo-squatting site?
Typos and URLs make a terrible combination, according to a report released Monday by security company McAfee.
Web surfers have a 1-in-14 chance of landing on a typo-squatting site, due to mistyping the URL of a popular site, according to the report called "What's In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007."
Landing on such a site, in turn, can ultimately lead receiving more spam, once one's e-mail is harvested from the typo-squatting site. In a majority of the cases, however, typo squatters are looking to generate money via pay-per-click ads on their domains, according to … Read more
