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Malicious Activity Grew At a Record Pace In 2008
An anonymous reader writes "Symantec announced that malicious code activity continued to grow at a record pace throughout 2008, primarily targeting confidential information of computer users. According to the company's Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV (PDF), Symantec created more than 1.6 million new malicious code signatures in 2008. This equates to more than 60 percent of the total malicious code signatures ever created by Symantec — a response to the rapidly increasing volume and proliferation of new malicious code threats. These signatures helped Symantec block an average of more than 245 million attempted malicious code attacks across the globe each month during 2008."
Another anonymous reader notes a related report from Verizon (PDF), which says 285 million records were compromised in 2008, more than the total of the previous four years combined.
Obviously it's a good time to make that security products purchase you've been putting off. You probably want something effective... say a software suite that's been able to block more than 245 million attempted malicious code attacks across the globe each month.
Oh. Wait. I see.
I would just like to point out that the URL for that PDF report indicates it is stored in a directory named 'mktginfo.' I wonder what that stands for ... "Mortal Kombat: The Game Info" perhaps?
If you search the folder, there's another file, 'info.txt' with one line:
UP DOWN UP DOWN A B A B A B A B A B START SELECT
What Operating Systems did this malicious code run on?
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Perhaps McAfee noticed that there are more users running computers with "Black Screens where they type in command lines" -
"i lost my dignity on a slippery wiener"
With our Corporate Edition SAV 10 installed, my machine is too slow to effectively run any other malware. I think Symantec did a good job of preventing other malware from getting any disk I/O at all.