94% of Vietnamese computers are infected with Viruses!

94% of Vietnamese computers are infected with Viruses! Picture 1 94% - an alarming number about safety in computer use. Accordingly, the highest loss in money will be about 410,000 VND / person, the lowest damage will be 260,000 VND / 1 person. This is data from a survey of more than 2,000 computer users in Vietnam, implemented by the Network Security Center (BKIS).

Please say immediately, the figure of 94% is just the percentage of 2,000 Vietnamese people using computers, not yet confirmed for all hundreds of thousands of computers being used in Vietnam, however, this was is an alarming representative number!

Survey results show that computers of people working in the field of commerce are infected the most (96%), continue to education (95%), services (94%) .

44% of respondents said that in 2005, their agency had to stop working for at least one day as a result of the virus.33% of respondents said that they were not worried about virus problems.

According to BKIS director Nguyen Tu Quang, this figure proves that people are not really wary of the harmful effects of the virus.5% said that they did not dare to use infected computers until they got help from others.

Results of the BKIS survey showed that 34% of respondents said that it took several days of troubleshooting the virus.The number of people who regularly update the new antivirus program periodically is 44%.

20% of users update daily and 8% of users update the new antivirus program monthly.The remaining 28% only updates the new antivirus program when they suspect their computer has been infected.

The situation of computers infected with Spyware (spyware) and Adware (adware) in Vietnam last year was also very serious (87% of respondents said that their computers had been harassed ).

In addition, 57% of respondents said they had to receive between 1 and 10 spams per day.Another 12% said they had to receive between 10 and 20 spams a day and up to 20% of respondents said they had to receive at least 20 spams a day.

In response to those in charge of websites in Vietnam, 34% of websites were attacked from 1 to 2 times, 11% of websites were attacked 3 to 5 times and 20% of websites were attacked more. 5 times.

According to calculations, the average loss of each computer user is about 260,000 - 410,000 VND / year.

In 2005, there were 232 new viruses, adware and spyware detected in Vietnam compared to 84 viruses last year.

According to the forecast of BKIS, computer viruses, Spyware, Adware will still appear every week.Concerns about a new virus can cause heavy damage when it tries to destroy data on the computers it infects, after safely moving to other existing targets.