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Fresh Samples of Malicious Programs Escalating, Reports PandaLabs

According to PandaLabs the security company, which just released one fresh report, new strains of malicious programs are coming on the Internet at a mean rate of 73,000 daily.

States the company that although the rate of increase has become less during the past months, fresh malware programs' payloads are up 26% since 2010 (same months), when fresh strains of malicious programs were at a mean of 58,000 per day.

Among those fresh strains, infection tools for PC Trojans were used in the maximum number of malware incidences as they contributed a 70% share in the total malware. PC viruses came in on No.2, accounting for 16%.

Subsequently, PC worms claimed a 7% share, with adware following at 2.27% as also backdoors at 1.89%.

Furthermore according to PandaLabs, malware tools aren't only more plentiful, but they're getting simpler to operate as also they facilitate the exposure of a larger number of people to cyber-crime. During recent years, Zeus styled malware-creating kits have become extremely infamous both in terms of being highly sophisticated and enabling easy utility.

Remarking about this issue, Technical Director Luis Corrons at PandaLabs stated that Trojans were growing remarkably because of more Internet tools spreading that facilitated even unskilled miscreants to develop such malware within minutes as also establish illicit business fast, particularly as it helped in gaining admission into banking data. Prnewswire.com published this on March 16, 2011.

Nevertheless, PandaLabs highlighted one more interesting aspect i.e. that not every PC Trojan increased with the identical speed. PandaLabs, while examining malicious software in terms of their subtypes, discovered that banking Trojans had declined, bots had stayed constant, and scareware or fake AV software had fallen in widespread use, for example: during January 2011, scareware infection was 21.868% that dropped to 14.187% during February 2011 followed with a significant fall to 9.211% during March 2011.

Additionally, PandaLabs' report states that "downloaders" have grown considerably. By downloaders it means a Trojan subsidiary, which after infecting any PC, links up with the Internet for downloading more malicious programs. Here, PandaLabs reports that downloaders increased from just 19.735% to 47.769% during January-March 2011.

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