Dark Reading - Sophos Security Insights: The Relative Risk Of Malware

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Trend Micro reports there are 3.5 new malware released every second, up from 1 new malware every 1.5 seconds a year ago. But what's your actual risk?

Jan 18, 2011
By Mary Landesman

Throughout 2010, Trend Micro published figures stating there was 1 new malware threat every 1.5 seconds. Just last week, a blogger interpreted that as being at personal risk of encountering a whopping 19,200 new threats per day (based on eight hours of online time).

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