The results are in! Alaskan residents are more likely to be victimized by spyware or adware infections, according to the just release Spyhunter Geographic Index. The Spyhunter Spyware Threat Research Team recently analyzed Enigma’s infected-PC reports and our software sales data for all 50 U.S. states to determine the PC “infection rate” for each state.

To compile the Spyhunter Geographic Index, we examined our state-by-state sales numbers and infection reports for all of 2007 and year-to-date in 2008 and found, not surprisingly, that the states with the most people had the most infections. In order to get a better sense for which states had the most vulnerable computers, we took the numbers for each state and figured them as a percentage of each state’s population. With that formula, we were able to determine the most accurate “infection rate” for each state.