One million viruses and counting. How the bad guys attack your PC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7797280.stm
If you ever wonder why your PC is a bit sluggish at times, it"s probably your anti virus program sifting through it's database to make sure the incoming email from aunty Beryl isn't infected with a nefarious piece of crapware looking to take over your computer."Sophos said it was now seeing more than 20,000 new malicious programs every day. 2008 was also the year in which Symantec revealed that its anti-virus software now protected against more than one million viruses.The vast majority of these malicious programs are aimed at Windows PCs. Viruses made their debut more than 20 years ago but the vast majority of that million plus total have been created in the last two-three years."The bad guys are turning to new ways to attack your PC. That social networking site you spend so much time on could well be infected, and that great little application you tried out that found all that spyware and offered to clean it up for a small fee, probably put it all on there in the first place.On the plus side, the common or garden spam email is on the decline.