SpyHunter's US Geographic "Infected PCs" Index (2007-Present)

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:

1. Alaska
2. Colorado
3. New Hampshire
4. Washington
5. Wyoming
6. Hawaii
7. Maryland
8. Connecticut
9. Maine
10. 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:

1. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island
2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana
3. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet
4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
5. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria
6. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy
7. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington
8. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown
9. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta
10. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach
11. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
12. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellvue
13. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale
14. Detroit-Warren-Livonia
15. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
16. Denver-Aurora
17. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos
18. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater
19. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario
20. Baltimore-Towson
21. St. Louis
22. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton
23. Pittsburgh
24. Orlando-Kissimmee
25. 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