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Kaspersky concerned about spam and Malware
But just then wednesday, Kaspersky has publicly report on the year trend of destructive software (Malware), as well as the type of spam by 2008. Reports some highlights:
About malware
Kaspersky Malware divided into 2 main types Trojware and Virware. Virware a virus, worm or any program which can duplicate itself, there are Trojware software as backdoor, rootkit, Trojan and any program will only infectious and enforcement when victims activate it .
Users often lest more of the type virus, while 92% threat by Kaspersky again from Trojware. In the first 6 months of 2008, Kaspersky detected 367,772 new Malware new program, more than nearly 3 times compared with the same period in 2007.
The researchers at Kaspersky in the first half of 2008 based on the threat from Malware has caused division Malware way to conduct it. For example, Trojan-Ransom Malware that is "encrypted files to blackmail people use" - encrypt the file, when users want to restore the data file you need to pay for his attacks, Trojan-GameThief is Malware type of abuse as it's called: stolen game accounts online.
Kaspersky also reports a new trend of mobile Malware: Instead of attacking the smartphone as before, the virus writers started specialized programs and Trojan environmental J2ME (Java for mobile phones) - is environment to run applications on any of the mobile phone does.
Has more than 150 types of Malware and are spread through IM device. This figure is growing up, Kaspersky predict that the trojware through messages will increase constantly stay.
About spam and the fight against spam
First 6 months of 2008, Kaspersky analysis and detect spam sent to many small, content is seasonal. For example in 1, the number of spam will be less to go in because 1 have winter vacation. The spammer, the more attention to quality of advertising spam of 1 (for spam advertising - instead of spam to vandalism).
To specify a letter is spam or not, the antispam program summary text to the checksum and then put it into the database program and implement antispam measures compare. The spammer usually inserted into any of the words so that each recipient will read each message differently. However through the spam filter, the variation is only 1 for the single.
Known, in Russia, spam makes up more than 85% traffic messages are sent. In general spam, mail advertising for pharmaceutical products and health care makes up 27.45%, education accounted for 13.86%, 8.45% travel ...
Khanh Lam (According PC magazine) on Vietnamnet
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