Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Norton Online Living Report 09

Annual Norton Online Living Report has been released. According to the report half of internet using adults visit intentionally on dubious websites. User doesn't create backups and uses easily breakable passwords. Every third adult taking part in the survey told that one's system had gotten infected by malware.

Careless surfing, irresponsibility and malware infected systems are alarming general shows the survey. Still, 99% of adults claims protecting personal information.

The survey covered twelve countries. According to the survey also children could do better. Every fifth child told being blamed for one's way of using internet. Still parents seem to be badly unaware of their children internet use - children tell that they spend time in internet twice as much as their parents think.

The survey was conducted by Harris Interactive assigned by Symantec during October-December 2008. 6,427 over 18 years old adults attended the survey.

Whole report can be downloaded here. The Survey Data is also available.

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