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April 05, 2005
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An analysis of virus code revealed that 70% of viruses and worms are now being written to help in the spread of secondary programs such as Trojans, keyloggers and redirects, rather than for their own sake.
"We had a gut feeling that viruses have become more professional," said Shimon Gruper, Aladdin’s vice president of technologies. Until around two years ago, the company would have expect to see between 400 and 500 new viruses per month. "What we see now are only 20-35 new viruses per month but they are now much more sophisticated. The payloads are now more dangerous," he said.
Gruper suggested that malware had moved to being distributed from websites because that this was one area that most corporate and consumer PCs were not well protected against. By contrast, e-mail systems would now routinely block attachments and most spam, making it harder for malware to reach users.
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