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UK Officially The Most Hacked Country

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the take-pride-in-your-position dept.

_Hellfire_ writes "Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report for the second half of 2004 says that the UK is leading the rest of the world with bot networks. The report states that "...25.2% [of bots] are located in the UK. That now puts the country ahead of the US (24.6%), China (7.8%), Canada (4.9%) and Spain (3.8%)". Symantec blames a sudden uptake of residential broadband connections without the awareness of the required security measures."

2 of 417 comments (clear)

  1. Re:UK consumers by tomcio.s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know when my virus checker was last updated... Wait, as a matter of fact, I don't even run one. Yet, I am 100% positive that my presence on the net is not disturbing (save for ocassional download fests) just as I am 100% sure I am virus & malware free.

    Quit equating computers with Windows.

  2. Re:Statistics..... by Sentry21 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    However, I think what theyre really saying is, "sales of symantec products poor in the UK."

    This goes well with their 'Sales of Symantec problems poor on OS X' article from yesterday.