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Symantec says Kuala Lumpur has the AP’s highest number of infected PCs |
Security solutions provider Symantec Malaysia said that the city of Kuala Lumpur now has the highest number of bot-infected (short for robots) computers in the Asia-Pacific/Japan region (APJ).
Bots – robots – are covertly installed onto a computer to allow hackers to remotely control the machine for malicious purposes such as unlawful data collection, information and identity theft.
Symantec’s latest study, the ‘Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR)’ - covering the six-month period from July 1 to December 31, 2007 - also found that Malaysia is the country with the second highest number of malicious activities in Southeast Asia (SEA), behind Thailand.
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