Armenia is the 3rd in league table for risky surfing

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Caucasus region, with web surfers in Turkey, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan is the most likely to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus while online, according to Internet Security company AVG.

The data taken from 144 countries, involving over 100 million PCs, enabled AVG to look at the incidence of security threats.

Turkey leads the league table for risky surfing, with antivirus software having to step in to protect on average, one in 10 users of the Internet. Web users in Russia (1 in 15 were hit), Armenia (1 in 24), and Azerbaijan (1 in 39) also suffer high rates of attacks.

At the other end of the scale, some of the world’s safest surfers can be found in Japan and Taiwan, while seven of the 10 safest countries in which to surf the Internet are in Africa. As a continent, South America was ‘safest’, and North America riskiest.

“Internet users in Turkey, Russia, the Caucasus and South-east Asia show disproportionately higher rates of being attacked than the global average of 1 in 73. There are a number of reasons for this,” AVG spokesperson, Roger Thomson pointed out.

“Some of it may be down to a tendency to access semilegal or illegal download sites, while some of it probably is down to being less cautious when it comes to sharing links and files online. Another factor is the popularity of Internet cafes and people generally sharing computers,” AVG spokesperson explained.

AVG Technologies is a global leader in security software, protecting more than 110 million consumers and small business computer users in 167 countries.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, AVG is the fourth largest vendor of anti-virus software and employs close to 500 people worldwide with corporate offices in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

AVG has nearly two decades of experience in combating cyber crime and operates one of the world’s most advanced laboratories for detecting, pre-empting and combating web-borne threats from around the globe for both businesses and home customers.