The increasing consumer use of social networks on the Internet and mobile phones and other smart devices, has resulted in the creation of important benefits in the pattern of daily life and is now under the threat of e-criminals in accordance with the International analyst viruses. An expert analyst viruses and malicious programs of the Group Lap Kasprsky research and analysis, Mr. Stefan forget in a forum Information and communication technology security in Kuwait, in 2009 used 80% of all Internet users, equivalent to more than one billion people, the social networking sites.

Said to forget: "had not escaped the attention of the growth of electronic criminals popular social networks, become the flow of these sites last year, a magnet for spam and malicious programs, and a source of illegal profit on the Internet. Kasprsky also included a father more than 43,000 malicious file related to the social networks only in the in 2008. "

He added: "The malicious code distributed through social networking sites have a success rate of about 10 percent in terms of infection, compared with less than one percent of the malicious programs distributed via e-mail

 

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