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| Serious Increase in Trojans Number Вetected by PandaLabs in 2006 PandaLabs, Panda Software's virus detection laboratories, will shortly be publishing a new report on the evolution of malicious code. The report will reveal, among other developments, how the number of Trojans detected by the laboratory has increased. A Trojan is a particularly dangerous type of malicious code as it stays on an operating system and carries out a series of actions without users realizing. At the moment, and due to the new malware dynamic, the majority of these Trojans are used for stealing passwords used to log into financial services. The next group of malicious code most frequently detected by PandaLabs are bots (from the word "robot") and then backdoor Trojans, which can allow users' systems to be used fraudulently. These two types of malware, even though they are also numerous, are far less prevalent than Trojans and have either remained stable or decreased in 2006. Trojans have consolidated their position as the most frequent malicious code, while other categories such as classic viruses, potentially unwanted programs and hacking tools, etc. have declined. Dialers too are clearly on the wane. These programs change dial-up modem connections and are now disappearing as WiFi networks and broadband connections are making modems increasingly obsolete. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |