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?


Amrit
March 20th, 2007 2:48 pmAmerica is #1
Nate
March 20th, 2007 3:01 pmOnions taste good… like America used to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIkQUHkksrI
Jeremiah Blatz
March 20th, 2007 4:24 pmLooking 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 pmI blame America.
live update » Symantec Says: USA is the Malwariest!
April 4th, 2007 12:37 pm[…] oraclewalkin wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe latest Internet Security Threat Report released by Symantec says that the highest percentage of malware originates in the US, with some 31% coming from US networks. China is a distant second, with 10%, and Germany was third with 7%. … […]
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