Sunday, September 30th 2007
UK Computers Have Least Active Malware
Anti-virus firm Panda Software recently conducted a survey among people who visited their site asking for a free virus scan, to determine who had the most malware and where. The United Kingdom came through with top colors, with only 8.1% having malware on their computers. France had the proud honor of owning 28.2% of the world's malware, followed by Mexico at 23.1%, Brazil, the United States of America at 17.8%, and Argentina at 17.4%.
Please keep in mind that these numbers are taken from a survey of people asking Panda to scan their computer for malware, meaning that there is a very good chance that malware is already installed. A more realistic number of how many PC's are really infected with Malware was taken by Microsoft, which found that approximately 1 in 300 computers with Windows installed have Malware.
Source:
PCWorld
Please keep in mind that these numbers are taken from a survey of people asking Panda to scan their computer for malware, meaning that there is a very good chance that malware is already installed. A more realistic number of how many PC's are really infected with Malware was taken by Microsoft, which found that approximately 1 in 300 computers with Windows installed have Malware.
15 Comments on UK Computers Have Least Active Malware
bit of a silly point really, to not accept a free scan? that would be silly,
either way, whatever we are doing is WORKING :slap:
Brits :pimp:
People who ARE serious have Anti-Virus programs in their computers with which they scan and disinfect anything bad they find. That way you dont waste time with useless scans.
Take a look, not even with AV you're malware free!!!!
also this could also be bad - how many of the results where from the UK? it could have only have been 3 people and only one of them had malware where as the 90,000 americans who scanned, 60,000 people found out they did.
these types of things need to be looked at and taken into account
So, depending on the number of computers we give the figures.
Fernando