83% Indian PC’s protected against Viruses, ahead of US, Japan!

This one is a surprising finding – According to Mcafee’s latest security report, Indian consumers better protect their PC against virus compared to Americans and Japanese.
The report released by MacAfee finds that globally one in every six personal computers have zero protection: 17% of those scanned either had disabled or nonexistent anti-virus software.
While Finland had the highest percentage of protected personal computers, Singapore was the lowest with 21.75% of consumers unprotected.
It is interesting to note that large number (82.67%) of Indians have their PCs installed with Anti-virus & security software to fight against new age virus.

Ranking	Country Ranking by Percentage of Consumers Protected	Percentage
1	Finland	90.30
2	Italy	86.20
3	Germany	85.55
4	New Zealand	85.22
5	Denmark	85.00
6	France	84.80
7	Brazil	84.50
8	Australia	84.30
9	Netherlands	84.20
	Norway	84.20
10	UK	83.52
11	Malaysia	83.20
12	Sweden	83.05
13	Philippines	82.87
14	India	82.67
15	Korea	82.42
	Ireland	82.42
16	Canada	82.10
17	China	82.00
19	Japan	80.65
	US	80.65
20	Mexico	79.40
21	Spain	78.67
22	Singapore	78.25

The most surprising statistic of all was that United States ranked in the bottom 5 least protected, with close 19.32% of consumers living without even basic security. Comparatively, Finland had only 9.7% consumers
The country with the highest percentage of basic security protection was Finland, with only 9.7% of consumer PCs unprotected.
Additionally, Consumers globally say 27% of their digital files would be “impossible to restore” at all if lost, and not backed up properly, and had an average value of $10,014 US.

Country Ranking with %age of Consumers without any Security Software Installed

According to the report, many PC consumers still think that if they stick to to known “safe” sites, they’ll be protected from all forms of malicious content. However, that is far from truth. With hackers starting to use more and more sophisticated methods, nothing on internet is “Safe”.