Today in the world of computer, we all are under the assault from Planet Malware.Warnings about the next emerging threat, followed by more warnings. Now lives seem to have lost in an episode of Lost in Space. We all are well versant with the statistics, 72% of organizations are plagued with spyware, ironically, they do not know it, 40% with Trojans, and ironically, they do not know it. On the other hand, is it 72% spams and 40% spyware? It starts sounding all too repetitive, from one latest pernicious attack to the next.



However keep aside the numbers and the robot is having a point, the threat landscape on the Internet has drastically changed. Hacker threats and extensive worm infections have been bygone era. Forget Sasser and Code Red, invasions now are more specific and targeted. Nowadays this is all about money honey, but egos. Organized crime has found out the world of E-business and the pot of gold for the crime is the hoard of identities, and most importantly, they are winning via stealth.



The Internet creeps are not in the business of advertising their business that is why they are making use of more and more rootkits. This is all regarding to undetected, pernicious software aiming the application layer, not servers, which can be rooted out by putting rootkits into kernal mode. Today the quality of pernicious code has been better than before and 60% of this malware is likely not discovered by anti-virus products.



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