What a massive problem this is going to be in the future.

In most cases nearly all companies now have Anti-Virus solutions and Spam solutions, the new frontier is to compromise the computers via the websites visited by non-tech savvy users. I can pretty much guarantee this issue will impact on you at some point.

I would like to point out some historical perspective here. Let’s take Spam e-mail as an example:-It started out being an annoyance and now chances are you get more spam e-mail than legitimate e-mail. The same thing is going to happen with malicious Websites.

One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC.
Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”.

About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user’s knowledge.

A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user’s computer, the team report.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6645895.stm

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