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Nations with low malware rates have better ISPs, Microsoft research finds
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:26:38 -0500 (CDT)
http://news.techworld.com/security/3299592/nations-with-low-malware-rates-have-better-isps-microsoft-research-finds/ By John E Dunn Techworld 26 August 11Countries with good national security teams (CERTs) and diligent ISPs show consistently lower rates of malware infection than those states that adopt a less paternalistic approach to security, a new analysis by Microsoft researchers has suggested.
According to statistics drawn from the company’s widely-used Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the countries which have shown notably lower infection rates of malware are Austria, Finland, Germany and Japan.
Using the yardstick of computers cleaned per mile (CCM)*, Austria recorded a normalised rate of 3.3 CCM in Q4 2010, Finland 2.3, Germany 5.3, and Japan 2.3, all significantly below the global average taken from 116 countries of 8.3. These low rates have remained consistent since the first measurements taken in 2007.
Paradoxically, one possible explanation was not the number of malware download sites hosted in each country, which in several of them was somewhat higher for some classes of malware than the levels seen in the US, a country with raised levels of infection at PC level.
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