Security
software firm Kaspersky Labhas predicted
aten-fold increase in new malware for
2008.
Such an increase would mean an extra 20 million malware programs
on top of the 2007 year-end figures, said Kaspersky.
Kaspersky Lab said that in 2007, the number of new malicious
programs recorded on the internet - including viruses, worms and
Trojans - amounted to 2,227,415, a four-fold increase on the
results for 2006.
David Emm, senior technology consultant at Kaspersky Lab, said,
"in addition to the quantity, the quality of malicious programs is
also improving. New and more complex samples, such as the notorious
Zhelatin (aka the Storm Worm), are emerging that demonstrate a wide
range of hostile behaviour and distribution methods".
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