Contrary to what many people would think, there has been some new evidence issued that state the U.S. is the malware capitol of the world. While the evidence obtained from the security company Finjan only consists of a sample size of all the websites on the Internet, the results were quite shocking.

San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Contrary to beliefs that overseas crime networks and unemployed computer programmers in Eastern Europe remain the leading sources of virus code on the Internet, new research supports the growing perception that the United States is producing greater volumes of malware code than any other region of the planet.

According to security hardware maker Finjan’s latest Web Security Trends Report — which analyzes data collected by the San Jose-based firm over the first three months of 2007 — more than 80 percent of the Web sites it found to be distributing malicious code were hosted on servers located in the U.S.

Although Finjan officials concede that much of the malware distributed by those sites may indeed be written and controlled by hackers operating outside of the U.S., the results indicate that efforts by legislators and law enforcement officials to crack down on illegal computing activity in the nation may not yet be succeeding.[more]

Tags: Malware