Corollary to "never buy a mechanic's car". SlashDot:
> A new report from Enigma Software Group identifies the American cities > with abnormally high infection rates for malware. An anonymous reader > quotes TechRepublic: In 2016, Tampa, Orlando, and St. Louis each had > malware infection rates per capita more than five times the national > average -- the highest in the U.S., the report found. Those same three > cities were also at the top of the list of highest infection rates in > 2015... ESG compiled malware detection data from its SpyHunter > anti-spyware software in the 100 largest cities in the US in all of > 2016. Two Ohio cities also made it into the top ten for malware > infection rates -- Cleveland and Cincinnati -- as well as Washington > D.C. (with an infection rate 242% higher than the national average). > But the infection rates drop noticeably after the top 10, with Miami > (at #14) the last city with an infection rate more than double the > national average. Interestingly, the top 35 cities include major > high-tech centers like Seattle, Austin, Boston, and San Jose. Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/these-10-cities-have-the-worst-malware-infection-rates-in-the-us/ https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/02/05/0623200/which-us-cities-have-the-worst-malware-infection-rates