Malware: A Never-Ending Race

What is Malware?

Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.[1] The term "computer virus" is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, including true viruses.

For more info about Malware I got an article from www.about.com Originally wrote by Mary Landesman.

Malware: A Never-Ending Race

In August 2009, PandaLabs reported receiving "nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of Internet threats" per day. And to ensure it keeps one step ahead of antivirus signatures, 52 percent of the new malware morphs every 24 hours, replaced by new and still undetectable variants. As Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLab explains, this continual onslaught of new malware causes "a never-ending race which, unfortunately, the (attackers) are still winning."

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