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Are every 3rd machine in the US infected?

A recent post on the Antivirus blog includes a brief presentation of Panda Labs ’study on viruses.
Are every 3rd machine in the US infected? 1 
According to the report, the first, but not in the least honorable place is South Korea, where the proportion of PCs containing some kind of malware is 57%. According to a compilation based on Panda data, the Swiss are the most enviable, with only 18,4% of sick machines, but Sweden and Norway are also doing well in this ranking. Instead of the previous widespread worm epidemics, banking trojans have recently taken over a growing piece of cake, but ransomware programs demanding ransoms have also become more common.

The detailed results are shown in the image below.

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The relentless increase in the number of malware is a serious concern, as shown by data collected by ESET Threat Center, which found that 2011% of data theft in 69 was due to some form of malware activity. It is also interesting to note that last year, more than 80 percent of U.S. workers said they had used their personal IT device at least once for work, while 66 percent reported that there were no company policies, duties, regulations in their workplace at all. owned smartphones, tablets, laptops.

Source: antivirus.blog.hu
 

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