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Security researches report seeing as much unique malware in the first half of 2009 as seen in all of 2008. “This is quite something when you consider that in 2008 we saw the greatest ever growth in malware,” says David Marcus of McAfee Avert Labs.
More specifically, Marcus in a blog post writes that the numbers add up to an average of 200,000 unique pieces malware monthly or more than 6,000 a day. “Bear in mind these are malware we consider unique (something we had to write a driver for) and does not count all the other malware we detect generically or heuristically… When you add in the generic and heuristic detections the number becomes truly mind boggling,” writes Marucs.
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