Kaspersky Lab forecasts ten-fold increase in new malware for 2008According to the company’s analysts, in 2007 the number of new malicious programs recorded on the Internet, including viruses, worms and Trojans, amounted to 2,227,415, which represents a four-fold increase on the results for 2006 (535,131). The overall volume of detected malware reached 354 GB in 2007. Before the year was out, many leading antivirus experts were calling this huge increase in malware an extreme situation. Some antivirus companies were simply incapable of effectively combating the sheer number of threats.
However, the year-end results for 2008, according to the experts at Kaspersky Lab, will demonstrate a very different trend. They forecast not a four-fold but 10-fold increase in the number of new malicious programs – an increase of more than 20 million.
In addition to the quantity, the quality of malicious programs is also improving. New and more complex samples, such as the notorious Zhelatin (aka the Storm Worm), are emerging that demonstrate a wide range of hostile behavior and distribution methods.
The number of new signatures added to the Kaspersky Lab antivirus databases in 2007 amounted to 250,000. According to our forecast, 1 million new signatures will be added to the databases in 2008. With the help of new technologies developed by the company’s antivirus specialists, it will be possible for a four-fold increase in the number of new signatures to combat the 10-fold increase in the number of new malicious programs. These technologies allow one signature to successfully neutralize dozens or even hundreds of different types of malicious programs.
2008.04.09
简要翻译一下:根据公司统计分析,2007年度,共发现新的有害程序2227415种,包括病毒,蠕虫和木马。四倍于2006年度(535131)。收集的样本总容量达到了354GB。在2007结束之前,很多业界的资深专家发出警告,目前我们处在一个有害程序高速增长的极端环境中。一些反病毒公司疲于应付,无法招架威胁数量剧增的现状,不能采取有效的防御手段。
然而,在2007年结束,2008新年伊始,卡巴斯基实验室的专家们宣称,今年新的有害程序的传播是一个非常不同的趋势,不再是4倍而是10倍的增长速度,超过2千万。
顺便提到质量问题,这些有害程序的制作水平也在提高和改进,出现了许多新的,更为复杂的样本,诸如:notorious Zhelatin (aka 蠕虫风暴),正在疯狂传播,其传播方式和感染主机的范围达到前所未有的程度。
2007年,250000病毒库特征码被加入卡巴斯基实验室,根据我们的预测,1百万新的特征码将被加入,在2008年度,借助公司反病毒专家们新技术的发展,有能力进行四倍速度的提升来获取特征码,从而与10倍数量扩增的恶意程序进行斗争。这些新的技术使得一个特征码就可以成功查杀数十种甚至数百种不同类型的有害程序。
时间仓促 翻译不准确的请英文好的补充 谢谢
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