Chinese computer virus infection rate of 8 first decline in 5 years

Xinhuanet.com November 17 Tianjin Xinhua (reporter Zhang Jianxin Meng Hua Zhang Yanni) reporter from the eighth session of the international anti virus assembly was informed that, at present China 80% computer is infected, down 8% compared to last year. This is the five consecutive year, the first decline in the prevalence of computer virus in china.

The Ministry of public security in 2005 the national information network security and computer virus outbreak investigation results show that the use of information network unit informatization is greatly improved compared with last year, the network security management information has been strengthened, the security situation improved slightly, computer virus infection rate has declined over the previous few years.

Survey shows that China did not appear this year, resulting in a wide range of network paralysis of the virus epidemic, the proportion of computer virus infection is relatively high during the period from 3 to May, the number of times the virus infection rate of 54.7%.

From the analysis of the type of computer virus infection, the network worm has been significantly higher than other types, accounting for 74%, Trojan program has become increasingly prominent, occupy the second place, for the script virus or web page virus also accounted for 41%.

The survey also showed that this year, the proportion of the loss caused by the outbreak of the virus was 51.3%.

The Ministry of public security since 2001 to carry out the national information network security and computer virus survey activities, the survey activities carried out once a year by the public information network security supervision departments, public security organs information network security association, the national anti intrusion and anti virus research center, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center jointly organized.