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SpyHunter's US Geographic "Infected PCs" Index (2007 Present) SpyHunter’s US Geographic “Infected PCs” Index (2007-Present)
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on August 12 2008 in 
Loading ...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.
The top 10 list of states with the most infected PCs (based on a ratio of population to infected PCs from Enigma’s internal sales data) includes:
- Alaska
- Colorado
- New Hampshire
- Washington
- Wyoming
- Hawaii
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Maine
- Nevada
The full list of all 50 states and the District of Columbia is below.
We’ve also compiled a list which ranks the U.S. metropolitan areas with the most infected PCs.
The top 25 spyware-infected computer in the U.S. metropolitan areas (2007 to present) are:
- New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana
- Chicago-Naperville-Joliet
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
- Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
- Boston-Cambridge-Quincy
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
- Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellvue
- Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale
- Detroit-Warren-Livonia
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
- Denver-Aurora
- San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
- Baltimore-Towson
- St. Louis
- Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton
- Pittsburgh
- Orlando-Kissimmee
- Kansas City
Spyware, trojans, worms, malware, cookies and other types of computer infections continue to increase. And the data we’ve collected shows that spyware is by no means slowing down.
A new wave of spyware makers with financial aspirations are devising more deceitful methods to infect as many computers as they possibly can to extort Internet users out of their money.
Spyhunter Geographic Index
Take a look at the list of states with the most infected PCs:
| State | Rank |
| Alaska, USA | 1 |
| Colorado, USA | 2 |
| New Hampshire, USA | 3 |
| Washington, USA | 4 |
| Wyoming, USA | 5 |
| Hawaii, USA | 6 |
| Maryland, USA | 7 |
| Connecticut, USA | 8 |
| Maine, USA | 9 |
| Nevada, USA | 10 |
| District of Columbia, USA | 11 |
| Vermont, USA | 12 |
| Virginia, USA | 13 |
| Massachusetts, USA | 14 |
| North Dakota, USA | 15 |
| Idaho, USA | 16 |
| Oregon, USA | 17 |
| Montana, USA | 18 |
| Utah, USA | 19 |
| Delaware, USA | 20 |
| Minnesota, USA | 21 |
| Florida, USA | 22 |
| New Jersey, USA | 23 |
| Arizona, USA | 24 |
| Kansas, USA | 25 |
| Pennsylvania, USA | 26 |
| Texas, USA | 27 |
| Wisconsin, USA | 28 |
| North Carolina, USA | 29 |
| Illinois, USA | 30 |
| Georgia, USA | 31 |
| South Dakota, USA | 32 |
| Missouri, USA | 33 |
| Ohio, USA | 34 |
| Nebraska, USA | 35 |
| California, USA | 36 |
| Iowa, USA | 37 |
| Indiana, USA | 38 |
| Rhode Island, USA | 39 |
| Tennessee, USA | 40 |
| New Mexico, USA | 41 |
| Louisiana, USA | 42 |
| Michigan, USA | 43 |
| South Carolina, USA | 44 |
| New York, USA | 45 |
| West Virginia, USA | 46 |
| Oklahoma, USA | 47 |
| Kentucky, USA | 48 |
| Alabama, USA | 49 |
| Arkansas, USA | 50 |
| Mississippi, USA | 51 |
