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The number of websites hosting malicious code is on the increase, says AVG Technologies.
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Roger Thompson, chief research officer at the security firm said AVG, is seeing between 200,000 to 300,000 new websites per day hosting code that can in some cases result in a PC being infected with malware just by visiting the site.
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Up to 70 percent of those websites are regular ones that have been hacked in order to host malicious code, a statistic that shows how poor website security is across the internet. The remainder are custom-built sites, he said.
