Religious websites have more malware than porn sites

The most harmful websites on the Internet, as far as risk of malware infection goes, are religious in nature, according to Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report. Sorry, porn sites.

The malware content is (usually) not intentional on the website owner's behalf, but is instead hosted on sites that have been compromised and infected.

Symantec's report, now in its 17th volume, says that religious websites have 115 threats on average, mostly in the vein of fake antivirus software. Pornographic websites, in comparison, have less than a quarter of that number, averaging about 25 threats per website. However, there are obviously many more pornographic websites on the Internet than there are religious websites.