Viruses: The Good and Bad
Some information about viruses, spyware and other malware.
The number of malware programs on the Web today is predicted to increase to one million this year. But there is actually some good news!
With antivirus, anti-malware and anti-rootkit software doing better and better as time goes by, the chance of a new threat ever reaching your computer is dwindling down. Malware programs written faster in order to keep up and few programs actually get the chance to infect a user's PC.
According to stats by Sophos, 85 to 90 percent of malware families have a fix created almost immediately. Also, e-mails with viruses attached have less of a chance of getting through to your computer. In the past, one out of 40 attempts would successfully infect your computer. Now, that number is one out of 1,000. That is great news for all of us and more of a reason to keep your protection up to date.
