* Encounter rate is simply the percentage of computers running Microsoft real-time security products that report a malware encounter. Encountering a threat does not mean the computer has been infected. Only computers whose users have opted in to provide data to Microsoft are considered when calculating encounter rates.
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Malware: European Union countries with the highest encounter rates 2017
This statistic displays a ranking of the ten European Union countries with the highest malware encounter rates as of January 2017. Bulgaria was the country with the highest encounter rate, followed by Romania and Hungary.
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