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Fifty Percent of Corporate Desktops are Infected with Malware
SAN BRUNO, Calif. and NEW YORK -- IronPort Systems issued a report that finds Internet malware (which includes spam, viruses, phishing, and spyware) continues to be a major threat to Internet communications. According to the report, more than 50 percent of corporate desktops worldwide are infected with some type of spyware - with the rate of infection as high as 70 percent in the United States.
Other findings from the report include:
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Trojans or malicious system monitors represented over 7 percent of the infections.
Rootkits and trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques, make remediation very difficult - thus prevention is the key to stopping these threats.
Tactics employed by malware authors have also become increasingly sophisticated, the latest being a “blended threat” which combines spam virus, and spyware tactics into a single, well coordinated attack.
Desktop cleanup efforts often involve reloading the entire operating system of an infected PC, a cumbersome and expensive undertaking.
IronPort found that malware costs over $150 per PC user per year. This number only reflects the direct IT costs associated with control and removal of malware, it does nothing to consider the billions of dollars at stake if confidential information is leaked or lost due to malware infections.
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