14 DAY TRIAL // A new research conducted by IronPort comes to confirm what we all knew: the computer threats, no matter if they are viruses, spam messages, spyware, malware, worms or anything else, are becoming very dangerous for all of us. That's the investment of an important amount of money is needed, in order to get powerful security solutions and protect the systems. At the same time, the already affected users have to invest in disinfection utilities that may help them clean the computers and keep the content accessible. IronPort sustains that the estimated price of a disinfection is about $500 per desktop. At the same time, "the average user spends 5-10 minutes a day dealing with spam."
"2007 marks a turning point. Just when malware design seemed to have reached a plateau, new attack techniques have burst forth, some so complex -- and obviously not the work of novices -- they could have only been designed by means of sophisticated research and development," said Tom Gillis, Vice President of Marketing for IronPort.
IronPort revealed that the amount of spam sent to our inboxes has increased with 100 percent. This means that the number of the unsolicited messages reaching our account is now double in comparison with the last year. No less than 120 billion spam messages are sent every day. "That's about 20 spam messages per day for every person on the planet," IronPort wrote in the report. Moreover, the spam techniques have evolved a lot, the company has reported. If the spam messages first attempted to advertise products, they are now trying to lure visitors on dangerous websites in order to infect their computers with malware and Trojan horses.
"For a time, security controls designed to manage malware were working. But, as a result of this success, the threats they protected against were forced to change. In 2007, many of these threats underwent significant adaptation. Malware went stealth, and its sophistication increased," the IronPort officials continued.