Malware in the United States: Everything you need to know at a glance

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How contaminated is the United States? This question is followed by an infograph of Netzsieger, which presents current numbers of Trojans, viruses and other pests. Did you know, for example, that 80 percent of the threats on the network are trojans, such as Ransomware or other covert pests? The danger of Locky, Petya and Co. is thus much larger, as sometimes just on dubious websites about a Flash-gap a root kit capture. Here, the value is just two percent. Nevertheless, you should of course continue to protect yourself and keep it on your guard.


And users with the fear of being spied on, we can say: Always keep an eye on what e-mail attachments you open up - instead of getting head over to seemingly devilish activities on the Internet from Microsoft, Google or Facebook break. In the case of spyware, you should pay more attention to which browser add-ons or tools you load from the network.


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The info graphic of Netzsieger is available on the official website. In addition to basic knowledge about online pests, it also provides you with many current figures. For example, would you think that almost every fourth computer in the United States is infected with malware? What do you think: How many new pests are rediscovered year after year? Does the figure go beyond six digits? Yes, even far! As far as you can see, Netzsieger. The infographic was created with the help of the "AV-Test" -Institutes, Bitkom, Kaspersky and IBM.