Quarter of Brits hit with virus in past year
Almost a quarter of internet-connected Britons have suffered from a virus attack in the past year, according to astonishing new figures from the Office of National Statistics.
Asked if their computer had been affected by a virus in the past 12 months, 23% of respondents claimed it had.
Security experts claim the relatively high figure could be explained by people confusing viruses with general computer faults. "This survey opens up a lot of questions," says Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos. "How do they know they had a virus? Is it because they lost a file?"
