14 DAY TRIAL // A report based on the results provided by BitDefender’s free online scanning service QuickScan has revealed that Romania is on the third position in the top 10 countries most affected by cyber threats.
India and Thailand occupy the first two spots, followed by Romania, where 13% of the online scans identified traces of malware.
Experts believe that Romania ranks so high because of the large number of pirated software that’s currently utilized by internauts. Another cause might be the lack of advanced security solutions that are capable of working autonomously for longer periods.
At the other end of the poll the study places Germany (4.7%) and the UK (6.5%). On a global scale, 11.5% of the scanned machines have been found to host viruses.
The most common malicious elements detected during the scans were Sirefef, Kazi, Graftor, Ramnit, and the famous Sality.