Microsoft has ranked Nepal as the fourth most malware infection prone country in Asia Pacific region.

Pakistan tops the list followed by Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal respectively.

Microsoft Asia recently announced the launch of its Malware Infection Index 2016 (MII2016) which is said to determine the key malicious software threats in the Asia-Pacific region and ranks the market in the region based on how prone they are to the malware threats.

Microsoft names Gamarue malicious computer worm which is one of the top three most diagnosed malware, Skeeyah and Peals being the other two. ‘These malware can steal your personal information, download more malware, or give a malicious hacker access to your PC,’ the report released by Microsoft Asia News Center, a subsidiary of Microsoft corporation.

The findings are based on data from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) and the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv20), the report says.

Microsoft suggests that Asia region is vulnerable to the malware threats since more than forty percent of computers in 19 Asia-Pacific countries are infected, with the average in the world being 20 percent.