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Source: Network World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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When you open up a browser session and visit Web sites and click on hyperlinks, do you feel a little apprehensive about the possibility of drive-by malware getting installed on your PC? I sure do, even though I keep my antivirus/antimalware software and other security measures active and up to date. I might be a little paranoid, but for good reason.
According to the Websense Security Lab, the number of Web sites with malicious software grew 225% in the last six months of 2009. Seventy-one percent of Web sites with malicious code are legitimate sites that have been compromised by hackers. You're not even safe doing a simple web search; 13.7% of searches for trending news and buzz words lead to malware. And, by 2009, Kaspersky Lab had collected more than 32 million samples of malicious programs—double the figure from 2008.
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