1 mn malware detections to elevate by 2008 end

Bangalore, Feb 15: The malware detection is elevating at higher pace. According to the research at F-Secure Security Laboratory, the malware detections continue to grow at a quick pace.

Wing Fei Chia, Security Response Team Manager, F-Secure Security Labs mentioned the following information. “At the end of 2006 we had about 250 thousand detections in total. That took 20 years to accumulate. At the end of 2007 we had doubled our total number of detections to just over 500 thousand. So it only took one year to double the previous twenty year's accumulation.

Taking a look at today's numbers, we have close to 560 thousand total detections. F-Secure Corporation protects consumers and businesses against computer viruses and other threats from the Internet and mobile networks.

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