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Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus

Successful attacks on the wane as virus protection gets better?

By Sophie Curtis

Published: 5 October 2009 16:37 BST

Despite an ever-increasing amount of malware in the wild, almost four in ten respondents to a silicon.com poll have never been hit by a virus. The poll, which asked readers when their PC was last infected, found 39 per cent of respondents claim their machine has never fallen victim to a virus, while a further 41 per cent of people's PCs were last infected between one and five years ago.

The poll suggests that successful virus attacks could be becoming less common, or that anti-virus packages are stopping the malware before it has a chance to cause problems: only eight per cent of those who responded said they have been infected by a virus in the last year, a further eight per cent in the last six months with another five per cent reporting having been hit in the last month.

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http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800...39558613,00.htm