As per a report by PCWorld dated August 28, 2011, an analysis by Microsoft reveals that countries having efficient CERTs meaning teams for national security, and industrious ISPs tend to display less malware contaminations repeatedly compared to those which maintain a security approach of less paternalistic form.
The company's popularly utilized MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) drew certain statistical data according to which, the nations with significantly less number of malware infections are Japan, Germany, Austria and Finland.
Utilizing a measuring standard namely CCM (computers cleaned every mile), it was found that in Austria this rate was an ordinary 3.3 CCM during Q4-2010, while in Germany it was 5.3 and in Japan and Finland -2.3 each, all considerably less than the worldwide mean of 8.3 covering 116 countries. Encouragingly, these figures, since 2007 when the first computations were done, have remained steadily low.
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