Azerbaijan, Baku, May 14 /Trend H.Veliyev/
The number of infected computers in Azerbaijan increased by 52.5 percent in the first quarter, which is 10.35 percent more compared to same period of last year, the survey of Kaspersky Lab virus activity indicates on Monday.
Azerbaijan is ranked third among the ten countries that faced the greatest risk of infection (following Russia - 58 percent and Tajikistan - 52.9 percent) through the Internet.
Azerbaijan was ranked sixth last year.
Russia, Tajikistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Cote d'Ivoire, Bangladesh and Sudan are included in the top 10 countries with a score of58 - 43,70 percent.
The company has calculated the number of Web-security use per country within the month to assess the risk of infection through the Internet in different countries worldwide.
Kaspersky Lab found and cleared nearly one billion of malware, which is 28 percent more than in the previous quarter.
Half of attacks were attempts of malicious code penetration through the Internet. This is ten percent higher than last quarter. In the intervening period has been fixed spread of malware 95080549 URL, which is 61 percent more than in the fourth quarter of 2011.