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.