Summary:

The 300 respondents representing 728,798 desktop computers and 24, 270 servers.

In North America 99.33% have experienced at least one computer virus infection.

The infection rate is about 33 of 1000 machines infected in any given month.

406 of 1000 machines infected in a given year.

The most common virus since the Fall of 1995 is the Word.concept virus.  The Word.concept virus continues grow more rapidly than any previous virus, infecting 49% of all survey sites.

In the first two months of 1997 alone there were 10,750 reports of Word.concept.  At this rate the Word.concept macro virus could triple in incidents during 1997.