Jakarta - As a country with a high population of active internet users, around 88.1 million, Indonesia is vulnerable to malware attacks. No wonder, according to data Akamai until March 2016 and Indonesia ranks number three as a country that is often exposed to malware attacks.
The data is submitted by Sudimin Mina, Software Asset Management Management and Compliance Director of Microsoft Indonesia. According to Sudimin, the high number of malware in Indonesia caused by the rampant use of pirated software.
"Malware or viruses are often lodged in software, especially pirated software, so the people of Indonesia are still happy with the use of pirated software.Therefore, the extent of the spread of malware was high," said Sudimin on the sidelines of a press conference anti pirated software in the Restaurant Sweet Harum, Jakarta, Friday (30/09/2016).
Not only vulnerable to bring viruses and malware, the use of pirated software can also deal with the law. Because as Sudimin explained, the use of pirated software is regulated in the provisions of Copyright Act No. 28 of 2014.
"Therefore we at Microsoft are constantly providing education to the people of Indonesia about the dangers of using pirated software through the website searchyangori.com," said Sudimin.
In addition to getting information about the dangers of using pirated sites, cariyangori.com also provides a variety of interactive games. Going forward, Microsoft also wants to accompany the information where people can get the original software.
"Because of this, nowadays software fraud is getting more and more fraudulent, some are rude, the seller will say it is genuine but secondhand, while the rough ones, they will openly give discounts even if the goods are fake , "said Sudimin.