Reporters learnt from the 2008 RISING Internet Security Technology Conference held on Nov 18 that the number of viruses continues to increase exponentially in 2008, which is 11 times of that in 2007. "The virus industry" has already been "internetized." According to experts, a reliable solution to tackle internetized viruses is to turn the Internet into a huge safety software.
RISING Corp. pointed out in "2008 Computer Virus Epidemic in the Chinese Mainland and Internet Security Report" that the number of viruses continues to increase exponentially in 2008. Over 9.3 million new viruses emerged on the Internet in the first ten months of 2008.
Experts stated that the whole industrial chain of viruses, from programming to spreading and selling of Trojan Horses (a type of virus), has been internetized completely. This is the root cause leading to the sharp rise in the number of viruses and the growing threat.
Hackers previously had to complete virus programming, virus spreading, identity death and selling on their own. Now, an efficient production line has taken shape through Internet operations and hackers can, as a result, choose to work on the parts at which they are most skilled, enabling the virus industry to be operated more efficiently.
By People's Daily Online
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