Symantec Reports More Than One Million Viruses Worldwide
Category: Bugs / VirusPosted: April 11, 2008 07:02AM
Author: razor
Symantec Corporation, maker of the Norton family of Internet security products, has announced in its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report that the global number of viruses - including trojans and worms - has topped one million. In what can only be described as a frightening escalation of malware warfare, Symantec claims that it detected 711,912 new threats in 2007 - with 499,811 coming in the latter half of the year, and the great majority targeted Windows-based computers. If we do the math, of the 1,122,311 malware programs detected by Symantec's software, the numbers indicate that more than two-thirds of all malicious software was created last year. Might be a good idea to update that anti-virus software...
