COMPUTER VIRUS

ComputerVirus
With the large number of computer viruses and variants that are currently showing a reality that the more creative people who are not responsible, we know that the world's "Underground." The development of this motif ditenggarai with theft of personal data and hijack the computer owner's credit card.

As dilansir Newspaper Kompas, Wednesday 15 April 2006 as follows:
The number of viruses, worms, trojan, and malicious program (malware) that threatens the computer has been cut through one million species. Figures are the results of monitoring conducted [...] Symantec, the antivirus company, which reported in its annual report Internet Security Thread Report.

Symantec says the growth of malicious programs to increase still high. Growth occurred in a very big last year. The report states during the second semester of 2007 found 499,811 new malicious programs or up 136 percent from the same period the previous year.

Throughout 2007, Symantec detected 711,912 new malicious programs. Significantly, this increase the number of viruses and malware that Symantec has detected a type of 1,122,311. Almost two-thirds of the evil is made throughout the year 2007. Made some big virus to attack a computer with Microsoft Windows operating systems and more malicious variants of the virus infecting never before.

Symantec suspect that high-growth triggered by increasing criminal digital conducted professionally. The malicious program may recruit powerful programmer-programmer of the various forms of technical attack.

The motive of the attack is to steal personal data to hijack the computer owner's credit card and the like. Combination these factors cause the increase in the risk of threat to computer users who connect to the Internet. (BBC / Wah)