[pchelpers] Article:Book a bed and breakfast, catch a computer virus

Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:49pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of computer viruses is growing
extraordinarily fast and shifting from phishing e-mails to being hidden
in seemingly safe websites such as a local bed and breakfast, says
Internet security company Symantec Corp in a new report on Tuesday.

There has been a huge increase in the number of viruses and worms, also
called "malicious code," on the Web with 624,267 identified in 2007
compared with 1.6 million last year, according to Symantec.

"Sixty percent of all the (malicious code) threats in the past 20 years
came in the last 12 months alone," said Vincent Weafer, Symantec's vice
president of security content and intelligence, in an interview with
Reuters.

More here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE53D0LT20090414
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