PandaLabs: New malware detections soar

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The number of malware detections soared last year, with an increase of 172 per cent from 2005, according to new research by PandaLabs.


Large scale infections caused by a single virus are on the wane, but multiple variants silently infecting computers are on the rise, the study found.Trojans are now the most prevalent form of malware. More than half (54 per cent) of all new malicious software detected last year was of this ...

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