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Locations such as Bulgaria, Georgia, Portugal and Romania have significantly higher percentages of web pages hosting drive-by download exploit code than the worldwide average (ranging between 8 to 12 times the worldwide average). A drive-by download site is a website that hosts one or more exploits that target vulnerabilities in web browsers and browser add-ons. Users with vulnerable computers can be infected with malware simply by visiting such a website, even without attempting to download anything.

 

===> During the same period, web pages hosting drive-by download exploit code in Luxembourg was 1/3 of the worldwide average. <===