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Viruses
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In April
2008
bi-annual
Internet
Security
Threat
Report of
Symantec put
that the
number
of viruses,
worms and
trojans in
circulation
has topped
the one
million
mark.
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The vast
majority of
these
programs
have been
created in
the last
twelve
months,
Cyber
criminals
pump out
malware to
fool
anti-virus
programs
which look
for
characteristics
they have
already
seen.
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The latest
report
covers the
second half
of 2007
during which
time the
security
firm
detected
499,811 new
malicious
code
threats.
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This figure
was up 136%
on the first
six months
of 2007.
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Throughout
2007
Symantec
detected
more than
711,912
novel
threats
which brings
the total
number of
malicious
programs
that the
security
firm's
anti-virus
programs
detect to
1,122,311.
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