U.S Consumers' Loss is More than 7 billion dollars due to the dangers of the Internet

According to the '2007 Consumer Report' by Consumers Union, it turns out that in these recent 2 years, American consumers lost more than 7 billions of dollars because of the dangers of the Internet.
*U.S.A Consumers Union is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1936. It tells informations about the products to consumers to protect them.

`According to the 'State of the Net Survey', by 2007 Consumer Report, it is said that one American consumer out of four is still in danger of the Internet risks.

*State of the Net Survey is the survey that Consumer Report National Research Center did to investigate the dangers of the Internet every year with 2000 consumers. They did it for the fourth time in the spring of 2007.

`In this investigation, it divided the dangers that the consumers might face in to 4 parts - spam, viruses, spyware and phishing. They calculated the loss of money because of these including the costs of fixing or buying computers caused by these.
-In the case of spam, it couldn't be calculated but it turned out that one out of two experienced the dangerous spam.
- Viruses take the second place of spam. It made money problems to one out ot five. Its' average damages are about 100 dollars and its total amount is 3.3 billion dollars.
- Spyware caused money problems for one out of eleven. Its' average damages are 100 dollars and the total amount is 17 hundered million.

`In the past 6 months before the investigation, it is conjectured that about 8.5 million people changed their computers because of the spyware. For the phishing, one out of 81 experienced money deodorization from their account. It's average demages are 200 dollars and the total amoun is 21 hundered million.

`In America, there were about 23thousand phishing attack. It turned out that phishing victims are over 10 millions in the recent 2 years.




`This paper shows that even though the educations and social cognition about the internet dangers has been improved in the recent few years, the amount of damages hasn't been reduced easily.

`This states that many average consumers can't act against the dangers of Internet yeat.

`Therefore the corporations which offers the Internet service has to establish the improved counterplans for the dangers. Also, consumers will have to put effort, like updating the vacine programs regularly.