Security Firm Sees Alarming Rise in ‘Transient’ Threats
Tue, Jan 27th, 2009
Anti-virus firm AVG Technologies says an alarming rise in the number of virus-laden sites that are here today and gone tomorrow is causing security experts to re-think traditional virus protection strategies.
AVG reports the number of websites set up to steal your data has nearly doubled from about 150,000 per day to 300,000 since October 2008. More alarming to AVG is the fact those sites are short lived and vanish sometimes within 24 hours. These "transient threats" make maintaining lists of dangerous websites extremely hard to manage, says Roger Thompson, chief research officer for AVG.
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