United States - the main “supplier” of malware

Sophos , a maker of anti-malware software, released Security Threat Report 2009 - a report on viruses, threats, trojans and other malicious junk, which over the past year tried to pick, damage, steal and destroy data on PCs, operating systems and websites.

Sophos noted (well, we ourselves know this) that one of the main ways of penetrating various kinds of viruses into the system is the inattention of users. Opened the attached file, continued to walk around the site, despite the warnings from the browser, launched the executable downloaded from the unreliable site ...

Of course, all this is not about those who read these lines. But we also have mothers, grandmothers and small children who are not computer savvy in terms of computer literacy. Which can quite let on a computer an infection and without batting an eye. And, often, difficult to explain. Better show. For example, here is a picture.
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In my opinion, intelligible.

Well, a little more about the Sophos report. Conclusion they made this: the United States again ahead of the rest. According to this report, about 37% of malware comes from a victorious democracy-fighting country. China is in second place with 28%. Russia, whose IT-resources produced 9.1% of malware, closes the top three "leaders".

via gizmodo