Consumers Lose Billions to Online Threats
According to the State of the Net survey by Consumer Reports of over 2000 households with internet access, it projects that American consumers lost more than $8 billion over the last two years to viruses, spyware and various internet schemes. Also, computer users have one in three chance of becoming a victim of malware which is the same chance as last year. According to the survey, computer users lost over $630 million to email scams just over the past two years. The nation has also spent over $7.8 billion in computer repairs caused by viruses or other malware.
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