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In September we added 1.6 million malware to our database. With these new entries, our malware collection surpassed 70 million samples.
The five million new samples in the third quarter represent approximately 55,000 samples per day, 2,300 per hour, or 38 per minute.
To get a sense of these threats, I examined one day at random and attempted to classify all these files. The results that follow are not fully accurate, but are an overview of what malware arrived in our collection that day.
Among the 33,000 Trojans, I was able to isolate:
If the trend continues, in two years our malware collection will surpass 100 million samples.
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WOW, this is nothing to brag about since it only shows how ineffective the entire AV industry is as a whole.
How about giving us some better statistics like what your doing to fix the common problems. Examples like common traits amongst the malware samples or what your doing to work with Microsoft and Apple?
Wishful thinking because it goes against your shareholders and corporate profits. WOW, fix the problem and your losing jobs – gee, no wonder we are in this mess.
Fess up and admit you guys call things trojans when their really just keygens. I have done my own analysis and as we know signatures are bandaids at best.
Frankly I have lost faith in the entire security industry because few are showing any true efforts to fix the problem.
Stop with the scare tactics because we are not buying your hype anymore… Go fix the problems, enough silly pie charts.
Hello Mr Paget,
I’ve read with a lot of interest your analysis and I have a couple of questions for you. Is each of these Trojans a unique sample or are some of them variants of the same malware?
If there are variants, could you give me some indications on the number of families that you have isolated in one day?
Many thanks.
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