Malware Built At Record Rates

If you do not have malware (MALicious softWARE) protection (anti-virus being the simplest example) then you are it is only a matter of time before you are badly stung.
Trojans continue to dominate the threat landscape, according to Panda Security’s latest quarterly report, released Monday.
The anti-virus maker’s research arm, PandaLabs, found that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, with trojans comprising 75 percent of those. In total, trojans were responsible for 80 percent of global computer infections – a record – far outpacing worms, viruses and adware.
Across the globe, researchers discovered that more than 31 percent of PCs have been seeded with malware, with machines in China experiencing the highest infection rates (around 50 percent). In the United States, PandaLabs said 28 percent of computers are infected nationwide, numbers that roughly correspond to previous versions of the report.
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