Scary Stats Don't Spook Netizens

No matter how hard we try, it's proving hard to steer ordinary people away from the Internet with spooky threat stats.

Despite mounting risks on an information superhighway jammed up with malware, 419 scams, phishing and credit card fraud, the number of 'net users is still growing rapidly.

All the way back in 1998, America's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) categorised and analysed 237 computer attacks. The results of that analysis revealed such pearls as:

* 3 percent of the attacks enabled web sites to attack site visitors