Step 3. Researching and compiling virus information

All three offices of the Environmental Research company are connected to the Internet and therefore are at risk of being infected by viruses. Antivirus software has therefore been installed at all three locations, but new viruses emerge on an almost daily basis and have to be looked out for. One of your assignments is to monitor virusactivity in the regions in which the three offices are located.

Using the services of Kaspersky Lab (http://securelist.com/statistics/), find and compilethe following information:

For each of the three company offices, write down the type of threat that was mostprevalent in the country where the office is located within the last 30 days. Determine which office is statistically most vulnerable to which type of threat. Foreach of the 3 countries and each type of threat write down the largest number of threats detected per day in the last 30 days. (Hint: Clicking on a country in the world map displays statistics for that country)

For each type of threat, write down the names of the 2 most prevalent threats, infections and attacks. Are they the same or different in the 3 countries? Determineand write down information about each of the malware such as its class, platform and publication date.