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By Michael Crawford 30/01/2007
The 2006 Sophos Internet Threat Report released last week discovered a seismic online shift towards using Web-based threats as a way to spread malicious code and dupe users into downloading it. According to the report Australia ranked number 43 out of all countries hosting malware in 2006 with New Zealand placing higher at number 36. The United States, China, Russia, the Ukraine and the Netherlands rounded out the top five malware hosting countries for 2006.
Trojan-like malicious code, outnumbering Windows specific Internet based worms in 2005, rose to 80 percent of all threats in 2006. In 2005 that figure was 62 percent.
Paul Ducklin, Sophos Asia Pacific head of technology, hinted at Australia's ranking as a bit part result from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) doing the right thing and the greater efforts companies are taking to
keep services secure.
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