Azerbaijan ranks fifth on risk of infection via Internet
Azerbaijan ranks fifth among the 20 countries that faced the greatest risk of infection over the Internet during the third quarter of 2012, a survey of Kaspersky Lab virus activity indicates.
53.1 percent of users were faced with a risk of infection in the country, which is 1.9 percent less than in the previous quarter.
The top 10 countries with a score of 61.1 - 46.1 percent include: Tajikistan, Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
The company calculated the number of Web-security users per country to assess the risk of infection through the Internet in countries worldwide.
There were more than 511 attacks from Internet resources located in numerous countries during the third quarter. A total of 165,000 unique modifications of malicious and potentially unwanted software were revealed.
Recently, Kaspersky Lab found and cleared more than 1.3 billion malicious objects and prevented malware from spreading to more than 91.9 million URLs.
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