世論 What Japan Thinks

There’s nothing really startlingly new from this recent survey into security software from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com, but I’ll translate it anyway.

Demographics

Between the 11th and 15th of June 2009 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their tweens, 18.4% in their twenties, 20.9% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older.

In Q2, it would have been useful to know if any of the people with viruses got them despite having virus software installed.

In Q2SQ, it’s interesting that so many used free software to remove the infection – I wonder how many only discovered they were infected when the bot scanner from Windows Update ran? You may wish to cross-reference this with another survey earlier this year that discovered a large number of people pay for security software.

Research results

From the sample, 1,017 people, or 93.9%, had a computer for personal use. They were asked the following.

Q1: Do you have security-related software (virus checker, etc) installed on your personal use PC or PCs? (Sample size=1,017)

Have installed on all	80.2%
Don’t have installed on any	11.4%
Have installed, but not on all	3.8%
Don’t know	4.5%

Q2: Have you ever caught a virus on your personal use PC or PCs? (Sample size=1,017)

Yes (to SQ)	30.0%
No	60.1%
Don’t know	9.9%

Q2SQ: How did you clean up you PC after the virus, viruses? (Sample size=305, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Removed it with free security software	108	35.4%
Reinstalled the operating system	102	33.4%
Removed it with paid-for security software	94	30.8%
Got friends, family to deal with it	32	10.5%
Didn’t do anything in particular	8	2.6%
Don’t know, can’t remember	6	2.0%
Other	14	4.6%