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Malicious
programs
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On February
8, 2008
Security
company
Panda
Software
said it was
getting more
than 3,000
novel
samples of
so called
malware
every day as
number of
malicious
programs
found online
reach
unprecedented
high
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Reports vary
but some
estimates
suggest
there were
five times
as many
variants of
malicious
programs in
circulation
in 2007
compared to
2006.
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Security
software
testing
organisation
AV
Test
reported
that it saw
5.49 million
unique
samples of
malicious
software in
2007 - five
times more
than the
972,606 it
saw in 2006.
o
AV Test
reached its
total by
analysing
malicious
programs and
generating a
digital
fingerprint
for each
unique
sample.
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Finnish
security
firm
F-Secure
said it had
seen a
doubling in
the number
of pieces of
malware it
detected in
2007
compared to
2006.
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Most of the
malicious
programs
detected by
these
security
organisations
are aimed at
the various
versions of
Microsoft's
Windows
operating
system.
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