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Top 11 Malware Threats To Watch Out For

February 13, 2008 by Shanmuga  
Filed under Malware

"By the end of 2008, McAfee Avert Labs predicts it will have identified some 550,000 malicious programs, a 54% increase from 2007. With all the new malware emerging, we can expect new terminology to describe these constantly morphing threats. Here, then, is our only slightly tongue-in-check attempt to predict some of the rising threats in 2008 and the language that may be employed to describe those threats.

Badvertising, Adsploit, Indexically Transmissible Viruses, Snookies, Anti-Social Networking, Social Graft, Whaling, Lieware, Spham or Spamble, Backdoored, Patch Fix." - Content courtesy of Security Warning 2008: Top 11 Malware Threats To Watch Out For — InformationWeek

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