[pchelpers] News:Sunbelt: Small antivirus companies are overwhelmed

Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk 
Published: 25 Jan 2008 17:35 GMT

Small antivirus and anti-spyware companies are being overwhelmed by the
amount of malware being produced, according to security researcher Alex
Eckelberry.

Eckelberry, president and chief executive of antivirus company Sunbelt
Software, said on Thursday that the huge amount of malware in existence
makes it difficult for small compnaies to tackle the problem.

"No longer can a company compete with a few folks in the lab and a group
of good programmers," wrote Eckelberry in a blog post. "They're out
there: little companies with small teams working an anti-spyware or
antivirus product, but it's hopeless. A small platoon won't win this
war. You need a brigade."

Eckelberry quoted AV-Test.org statistics that he said showed "a good
representation of the staggering load of malware that anti-malware folks
are under". According to Eckelberry, the number of unique samples of
malware, with variants, rose from 564 in 1986 to 5,490,960 in 2007. At
the beginning of 2006, the number of unique samples of malware was still
under a million, but this number had quintupled by the end of 2007.

More here:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39292422,00.htm


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