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Men think that they know more about online security than women

Posted January 31st, 2008 by Alex Ion

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The concerns of are not as big as they should, mainly because everyone thinks their passwords are good enough, they have an anti-virus and that’s it. However the fun thing about that is that in a recent report by security soft maker AVG, consider themselves much better than when it comes to .

AVG global security strategist Larry Bridwell said that “My gut feeling, because I’m a man, is that it is one of those societal gender things”. It looks like confidence doesn’t translate into safety but hey, this could be another man thing, because security threats are gender-equal.

were exceptionally confident in their own security prowess, and only 4 percent of them said they didn’t know what kind on online protection they had in place. “

The results are from a study that included 1,400 adults in the UK. How do you feel about that? Do you think (you ) are better than at ?

via ArsTechnica



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