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Religious websites are the most attacked by hackers

Online religion may be good for your soul but dangerous for your computer, according to a new report.

The study by Symantec, a company that sells computer-security software, finds websites devoted to religion or other ideologies to be the ones most targeted by malicious hackers.

Infected religious websites averaged 115 threats, most commonly fake antivirus software, reported Symantec. That was three times the rate of hosting and personal hosted websites and four-and-one-half times that of pornographic sites.