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How bad is it? Worse than you think. Here's what the new breed of malware looks like -- and what you can do to stop it

August 05, 2010
By Roger A. Grimes

If malware were biological, the world would be in the grip of the worst pandemic in history. In 2009, more than 25 million different unique malware programs were identified, more than all the malware programs ever created in all previous years (see the annual report from Panda Labs). That's a pretty incredible statistic. Malicious programs now outnumber legitimate ones by many orders of magnitude.

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