Online banking led online card use among a survey of Internetusers in eight countries around the world that aimed to find outhow secure people felt using the Internet.
The annual online well being survey from F-Secure also found veryfew that said they felt their children are totally safe on theInternet.
The Finland-based provider of Internet security tools(www.f-secure.com) used a third-party survey service in December tointerview about 200 online users each in the United States, Canada,the United Kingdom, France, German, Italy, India and HongKong.
Fifty percent of the respondents overall said they were confidentabout security while doing online banking, but only 6% said theyfelt secure while making credit card purchases online.
Online bankers were the most confident in the U.S. (63%) and theleast in Germany, where 39% said they were not confident in onlinebanking.
Only 7% of respondents said they thought their children weretotally safe on the Internet.
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