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Almost 50% of British Online Surfers Encounter Cyber-Attacks, Talk Talk Discovers

London-based pay television, Internet Service Provider and telecommunications firm, Talk Talk recently conducted a research of the broadband activities by 19,828 British adults which revealed that 45% of the total households with an Internet connection had undergone a cyber-attack of some sort or another, particularly which involved blasting users' computers with undesirable windows of advertisements, published Ispreview.co.uk dated September 20, 2011.

Talk Talk computes that the British households also suffered over 700,000 trials of ID-theft during Q1-2011 and that last year (2010), 89% of all electronic mails comprised spam.

Thereafter, about 34% of online assaults involved adware that garnered computer users' private identifiable details, suggesting that the assault truly represented the greatest of major types of Internet assaults, according to the research.

Furthermore, spyware along with PC-Trojans were behind 14% of the total e-threat assaults, while PC-viruses contributed a 14 per cent share.

In addition, computer worms accounted for 5% of the total online assaults, while phishing and identity theft; and hacking accounted for 4% and 3% of prominent dangers respectively.

Meanwhile, 23% of broadband subscribers polled stated that at least 1 kid out of their total siblings sometime or the other pulled down a virus inadvertently while operating their home PC.

Moreover, according to 5% of respondents, somebody aged 6-17 years within their family sometime or the other divulged personal information on the Internet. Naturally, parents are most frightened of this, with 73% articulating that their only greatest worry of the Internet pertains to their kids' private security.

Notably, alongside the above mentioned discoveries, the research exercise reveals that too many survey participants admitted that Internet connections should be necessarily safeguarded, even as 10% of broadband subscribers stated that their single most reliance was on personal watchfulness rather than on utilizing security applications.

Remarking about these fascinating discoveries, Marketing Director and Visionary Tristia Clarke at Talk Talk stated that nothing was more shameful than qualms of safety and security that didn't allow somebody to enjoy the online sphere and its benefits fully. People did require adopting own responsibility to remain safe online, Clarke emphasized. Broadbandwatcher.co.uk reported this on September 20, 2011.

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