One million computer viruses
In the latest edition of its bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report , Symantec revealed that the number of computer viruses is now bigger than one million. In the 2nd half of 2007, there were found 499,811 malicious threats, which is 136% increase compared to the first 6 months of 2007.
The end of 2007 found Symantec detecting 1,122,311 threats. Symantec says that this big increase of the new viruses is caused by the fact that high-tech crime groups now employ very good programmers to help them create dangerous viruses. Many of the threats are Trojans, which once installed on a computer, install other malicious programs, send confidential data to the Trojan creator, by logging user names, passwords and so on.
Source: BBC News.
