14 DAY TRIAL // Webroot Software, an anti-spyware developer has released its State of Spyware Report Q2 2006 in which it underlines a spyware ascendant trajectory. The report's metrics indicate that 89% of consumer machines were compromised and that the average volume of malware infection detected comprised an estimated 30 items of spyware. In this context, Webroot's Phileas V has detected 527,136 malicious websites in the second quarter of 2006. The automated spyware research system had found only 427,000 in the first quarter.
"Less than a year ago, many so-called Internet security experts began claiming that spyware was on the decline and that infection rates would soon drop to the point of extinction. While the infection rates at that time seemingly supported this theory, the data we have culled during the past six months unequivocally show that spyware is anything but extinct," said C. David Moll, CEO of Webroot Software. "Spyware is a financially motivated threat and as long as there is a dollar to be had, cyber criminals will do everything possible to steal it. It is imperative that PC users deploy a proven anti-spyware solution that offers proactive protection against the most advanced spyware technologies."
The average global spyware rate is 24.5 items of malware per machine while the U.K., who holds the lead accounts for an average of 30.5 pieces of spyware, followed by Ireland with 30.3 and Lithuania with 29.3. While spyware compromising among general consumers has amounted to 89%, the proportion of enterprise infections is as low as an average of 19 items of spyware per machine.