European Teen Internet Safety Survey Details

A couple of days ago, McAfee-UK released the results of a survey on teens’ attitudes toward safety on the Internet as pertains to accessing free music or videos. Here you can read the press release titled Teenagers Risk PC Security For Free Downloads. But I always prefer the raw data. Unfortunately, this tabulation has already been interpreted and lacks the original questions. But they’re still interesting=85

Sample Size

The research was conducted in June 2006 by ICM Research who conducted 615 interviews with teenagers aged between 13 and 17 in six European countries. The sample breakdown is:

1. % of teenagers unconcerned by the risks of viruses and other threats when downloading music or video content

2. % of teenagers who regularly use illegal (sic) file sharing sites like Kazaa and Limewire

3. % of teenagers who are not worried about internet security when they go online

4. % of teenagers who rarely check to see if their security software is up to date

5. % of teenagers who are entrusted with keeping the family PC secure

6. % of teenagers that purchase digital content from online shops such as iTunes

7. % of teenagers do not scan downloaded files or email attachments for viruses or other threats before opening them

8. % of teenagers who admit to giving out their personal details in chatrooms

9. % of teenagers who are unaware that a breach could cause them to lose all their digitally archived items such as music

10. % of teenagers who did not realise that their PC could be remotely taken over by cyber savvy criminals and used to send spam emails

11. % of teenagers who are unaware that their personal information could be hacked into and stolen

12. % of teenagers aware that their digital content such as music could be lost through infections

13. % of teenagers aware that hackers could steal their personal information

14. % of teenagers who did not know what a phishing scam was

15. % of teenagers who had never heard of spyware

16. % of teenagers who know what phishing is

17. % of teenagers whose family PC is located in their bedroom

18. % of teenagers whose family PC is located in the living room