McAfee says malware threats are on a rise
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 23:08 IST   |    7 Comments
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McAfee says malware threats are on a rise
Bangalore: McAfee said that production of software code known as malware, which can harm computers and steal user passwords, reached a new high in the first six months of 2010. The total malware production continued to soar and 10 million new pieces of malicious code were catalogued. "Our latest threat report depicts that malware has been on a steady incline in the first half of 2010," Mike Gallagher, Chief Technology Officer of Global Threat Intelligence for McAfee, said in a recent report. Since in April, McAfee Labs detected the Mac-based Trojan known as "OSX/HellRTS," which reads or modifies the contents of the clipboard or plays tricks on the user like opening and closing the CD drive. They warned users of Apple's Mac computers, considered relatively safe from virus attacks, that they may also be subjected to malware attacks in the future. "We do not want to overstate this threat. But it serves as a reminder that in this age of cybercrime, data theft and identity theft users of all operating systems and devices must take precautions," McAfee said.

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