Anti-Virus company, Trend Micro, report that they are now seeing a new virus every 7 seconds which amounts to more new viruses in a month, than they saw in total in their previous 20 year history. So the Anti-Viruses software vendors can no longer keep their user protected.

 

Viruses are designed by Cyber Criminals to exploit security flaws in computer software and operating systems and are released before the software publisher can patch to their software. Relying on software publisher updates is no longer sufficient, becauses once installed, a virus enables the cyber criminals to remotely control a computer, capture any confidential or financial information and use the machine to distribute Spam.