Symantec Says: USA is the Malwariest!

Dave G. | March 20th, 2007 | Filed Under: Slashdot Rounddown

Overcoming stereotypes of American laziness, Symantec’s research has shown that our malware authors are more productive than any other country! From Preston Gralla @ ComputerWorld:

The latest Internet Security Threat Report released by Symantec says that the highest percentage of malware originates in the U.S., with some 31% coming from U.S. networks. China is a distant second, with 10%, and Germany was third with 7%.

I am really interested in seeing how these stats will change over time

  • Will we see other countries grow?
  • Will we see Malware Outsourcing?
  • What does this really say about America?

Finally, have they collected these stats before? Anything we can compare against?

5 Comments so far

  • Amrit

    March 20th, 2007 2:48 pm

    America is #1 :-)

  • Nate

    March 20th, 2007 3:01 pm

    Onions taste good… like America used to.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIkQUHkksrI

  • Jeremiah Blatz

    March 20th, 2007 4:24 pm

    Looking through the previous report, I didn’t see that stat mentioned. I didn’t check too carefully, though. You can grab the report archives here:
    http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/theme.jsp?themeid=threatreport
    but they’re pretty hefty.

  • Thomas Ptacek

    March 20th, 2007 5:24 pm

    I blame America.

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