1 in 3 Europeans Infected by Computer Viruses Last Year

The dismal statistics were released by Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union. According to reports, one-third of European Internet users caught a computer virus that resulted in some sort of loss, despite over 8 in 10 of them using anti-virus or other protection software. Bulgaria ranked as the most dangerous country for computer users, over half of the computers there had been infected by a virus last year. Ireland and Austria ranked as the safest countries.