Azernews.Az

BAKU – Azerbaijan is among the top 10 countries where users’ computers faced the high risk of viruses spread over the internet in the second quarter of 2011, IT security company Kaspersky Lab said in a report.

In order to assess the magnitude of risks posed by computer viruses, the company estimated how often anti-virus programs were activated on the PCs of users in each country assessed in the three-month period.

According to the report, Azerbaijan ranks fourth out of ten countries whose internet users encounter cyber-attacks the most, with 43 percent of users facing the threat of computer viruses. Eight of the ten countries where the figure is 41 to 60 percent are Oman, Russia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Belarus.

In Azerbaijan, internet users were affected by a lot of fraudulent software, such as Hoax.Win32.ArchSMS.

As for the countries where surfing the Web is safe, this group included 28 countries, with 11.4 to 20 percent risk of virus infection. Among these countries were Switzerland (20.9 pct), Poland (20.2 pct), Singapore (19.6 pct) and Germany (19.1 pct).

Over 200 million cyber-attacks were carried out from internet resources based in countries around the world, according to the report.