steven36 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 The Independent institute AV-Test issued an analysis that recorded 143 Million new malware samples in 2014 and 12 million new variants per month.The German independent IT security institute AV-Test has published an interesting statistic on the current diffusion of malicious code, the data reveal that experts noticed 12 million new variants per month.AV-Test provides professional evaluations of security software, its analysis focuses on the detection capability of principal security applications, the data are published on daily bases.The organization focuses on malware designed to infect Windows and Android systems that are most targeted OS due to their diffusion. The data have been compiled by the independent institute AV-Test that extracted them from its analysis tools Sunshine and VTEST. Every single threat detected by the analysis systems is classified and information collected by AV-Test.12 million fresh strains of malware detected every month are just one aspect of the interesting analysis, AV-Test also revealed that every second four samples are available in the wild.Analyzing data related to the last 12 months, the month with the greatest number of new threats was August, when over 18 million new samples were identified by AV-Test.As for the total number of threats caught last year, more than 325 million pieces were analyzed during the month of December alone.The statistics reported a total amount of new malware in 2014 of 143 million, an amazing quantity if we consider the portion of malicious code that is detected by principal Antivirus software.“The AV-TEST Institute registers over 390,000 new malicious programs every day. These are examined using the analysis tools Sunshine and VTEST, classified according to their characteristics and saved. Visualisation programs then transform the results into diagrams that can be updated and produce current malware statistics.” reads the official page published by AV-Test.The data shows a constant increase in new cyber threats recorded over the years, the AV-Test twitted an interesting graph that resume the situation since 2010. The graph below shows that the number of new malware in 2014 is significantly greater respect the number of new strains of malware observed in the previous years.In 2014, AV-TEST has registered more than 143 million new malware. That’s more than 4 new samples every second! pic.twitter.com/F5N1DJVDRs— AV-TEST GmbH (@avtestorg) 8 Gennaio 2015Compared to 2013, AV-Test statistics show that the difference in new threats is of about 60 million, meanwhile in 2010 the institute recorded only 17.5 million malware.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Advertise compilers have made a logical error here. It is not in any way possible.In 2014, AV-TEST has registered more than 143 million new malware. That’s more than 4 new samples every second! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 Advertise compilers have made a logical error here. It is not in any way possible.In 2014, AV-TEST has registered more than 143 million new malware. That’s more than 4 new samples every second!Why do you make definitions for an antivirus company are is this just your opinion? I think they go by how many new databases are written witch many are just false positives. I'm more worried the fact that there's new malware out there that many scanners cant even pick up tell days maybe weeks latter and you could be infected and never know because you use some not so good anti malware . how do you call it and error when these test go back for years ? as you can see here Today's computers face more attacks than ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 I have not spoken about any-virus or malware or any company, but I said, there is a logic error.See, numbers can be divided, and the result can be obtained, it can be absolutely realistic and true, but it is only number, but does not always get it in real life use.In real life simply can not be so. Many things are possible in theory, but not in real life.Yes, I've seen this story, which You suggested me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 I have not spoken about any-virus or malware or any company, but I said, there is a logic error.See, numbers can be divided, and the result can be obtained, it can be absolutely realistic and true, but it is only number, but does not always get it in real life use.In real life simply can not be so. Many things are possible in theory, but not in real life.Yes, I've seen this story, which You suggested me.I never really trust these test no ways back some weeks ago there was a post made on some new malware and I found VT reports that many scanners that ranked really high in these test like these could not find it and many of the lower ranking ones could lol.//www.nsaneforums.com/topic/237531-microsoft-warns-for-new-malware-attacks-with-office-documents/?p=884270 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 :lol:I gave up to say any kind of opinion, recommendation, etc. Just it is not particularly healthy...Quote of the Day: "Personal opinion is a luxury (thing), and it can be used quite rarely." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted January 18, 2015 Author Share Posted January 18, 2015 :lol:I gave up to say any kind of opinion, recommendation, etc. Just it is not particularly healthy...Quote of the Day: "Personal opinion is a luxury (thing), and it can be used quite rarely."The thing that got me about the new malware was that the free ones by AVAST and Microsoft could find it and many you get recommended because they have a free giveaway could not . :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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