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Malware Reports and Media Coverage

eWEEK
Security Product Review: An Eye on Endpoint Protection Software

SANS Malware FAQ
The Internet's most trusted site for vendor neutral malware information.

ZDNet Webcast
Malware: A moving target?

SearchWindowsSecurity.com
All-in-One Guide: Malware Overview

SearchSecurity.com
10 Emerging Malware Trends for 2007

Network World, 04/05/07
Has the end arrived for desktop antivirus?

Computerworld, 03/30/07
Rootkits outfox old-school malware protection

White Papers and Product Tests

RGcrawler Data goes Head-to-Head with Competing Security Solution:
Anti-malware solutions tested for relative effectiveness

Product Brochures

RGcrawler
RGguard
Spyberus

The Malware Problem

According to the Yankee Group, roughly 220,000 cumulative unique variants of malware are out there, representing a tenfold increase over 2002 numbers. At the same time, detection rates against new variants are less than 70 percent, and anti-virus labs are 30-60 days behind in trying to keep pace with the appearance of new mutations.

Data from Forrester Research shows that 17 percent of businesses said their systems have suffered from spyware this year, and the firm expects that number to climb to 25 percent within the next 12 months.

NetworkWorld says that almost 40 percent of enterprise IT trouble tickets are spyware-related.

Today, about two-thirds of all PCs are believed to have some form of malware infection. The Geek Squad reports that 78 percent of their consumer revenue is from cleaning up such malware on their customers’ PCs.