Malicious Programs Increase To One Million
April 10th, 2008
Viruses, worms and Trojans that have circulated across the net have reached an all time high of one million, the highest number of malicious programme to date. Security firm Symantec revealed in its bi-annual report, that most of these malicious programmes have been created in the last 12 months. The Latest Symantec reportedly detected approximately 499,811 malicious code threats during the second half of 2007. This had increased in the first half of 2007 by 136%.
However, 2007 was a year that Symantec had detected over 711,912 new threats amounting to 1,122,311 of malicious programs. The report stated, “…almost two thirds of all malicious code threats currently detected were created during 2007.” Many of the cyber criminals have created programs that fool anti-virus software to look for characteristics already seen by them.
Posted by Mahesh ( Tryangled )