Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Can You Get Me Disease Twice

Important despatch to know!

A three European PC infected with a virus in 2010

Created 08.02.11 à 19h42 - Updated 08.02.11 at 7:57 p.m.
Alerte de l'antivirus Nod32, sous Windows.



SECURITY - Despite an increase in protection ...

Viruses, malware, spyware, Trojans ... Vermin continues to infect PCs: almost one in three machine was infected last year in Europe, according to a Eurostat study (PDF here ).

Yet, 84% of them are protected by security software (antivirus, firewall or antispyware).

Topping the list, Europe's figure is made of poor student: Bulgaria, Slovakia and Hungary came first (58%, 47% and 46% of PCs infected), followed by Italy (45 %). France is about average (33%). Austria, Ireland and Finland are the countries better off (less than 20%).

3% fall for phishing Very

media, phishing (stealing information by posing as a home site) is still marginal: only 3% of Europeans have fallen into the trap and suffered a financial loss.

For those looking for a free, Avast Antivirus and Microsoft Security Essentials offer sufficient protection to the public. Especially, it is imperative to enable the automatic updates of its software (Windows, Acrobat Reader, Quicktime, internet browser etc.) because of security holes are regularly blocked.


Do you use antivirus software? Do you spend between the drops?


release of the newspaper "20 minutes"

http://www.20minutes.fr/article/666718/high-tech-un-pc-europeen-trois-infecte-virus-2010

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