Bell Internet has most 'malicious activity': Symantec
Bell Canada's Internet service carried the most viruses, spam, computer attacks and other so-called "malicious activity" in the country in the last half of 2007, says cyber-security firm Symantec.
Symantec, producer of the widely used Norton AntiVirus software, conducts a twice-yearly global Internet security investigation. The company detected a whopping 711,912 new malicious code threats to the Internet in 2007, up dramatically from 125,243 in 2006.
The study named Canada the No. 9 hot spot for malicious activity, far behind the United States at No. 1.
