Sierra Leone Ranks First on Internet Security

Monday, August 30, 2010 - 11:30
Internet security company AVG releases a study that looks at the safest and most dangerous places to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus
Internet security company AVG has just released a study that looks at the safest and most dangerous places to be hit by a malicious computer attack or virus.

According to the study, Sierra Leone is the safest recording the fewest attacks with an average 1 in 692 web surfers facing an attack, while the United States of America came a distance 9th when it comes to the riskiest places to go online where 1 in 48 people were hit by an attack.

The study rates Turkey as the most dangerous country for web surfers with an average of one in every 10 users face a threat to be hit online, followed by Russia one in every 15 users, Armenia (one in 24) and Azerbaijan (one in 39).

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All Africa

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