Symantec says Kuala Lumpur has the AP’s highest number of infected PCs
Security solutions provider Symantec Malaysia said that the city of Kuala Lumpur now has the highest number of bot-infected (short for robots) computers in the Asia-Pacific/Japan region (APJ).
Bots – robots – are covertly installed onto a computer to allow hackers to remotely control the machine for malicious purposes such as unlawful data collection, information and identity theft.
Symantec’s latest study, the ‘Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR)’ - covering the six-month period from July 1 to December 31, 2007 - also found that Malaysia is the country with the second highest number of malicious activities in Southeast Asia (SEA), behind Thailand.
