A comparison of recent surveys has shown that UK users are increasingly lax about perceived threats to their computers, security site Securitypark.net has reported.
Trend Micro Incorporated's report looked at two 2005 and 2007 studies on what corporate users attitudes to security threats to their computers were.
Both studies looked at the responses in the US, UK, Germany and Japan.
It found UK respondents perceive threats now to be less serious than two years ago, similar to the US, although German users on the other hand considered threats now to be more serious.
But according to the company, digital threats had increased 163 per cent by the end of 2006, more than three times that if only web threats are included.
Spam, spyware and viruses are the threats that users are more aware of and are looking for more information on how to combat.
Spyware, thought to be a growing threat in most countries surveyed, has actually declined dramatically in the UK, by almost twenty per cent in the past two years.
The prevalence of spam in the UK had also begun to decline since its peak in August of 2006.
But Trend Micro Incorporated worried that the drops reflected a decline in awareness to possible threats as the complexity and sophistication of attacks grow.
It advised users to inform themselves as much as possible, contact the IT department, and be aware of new forms of attack such as phishing, in which links to sites containing threats are included.
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