McAfee Inc. recently achieved a depressing milestone, namely the inclusion of the 200,000th malware signature in its VirusScan database. Malware authors have certainly kept themselves busy; this achievement marks the doubling of the database in only 22 months. That’s an especially striking statistic when it took eighteen years to build the database to the 100,000 signature mark.

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Published in SearchSecurity on 10/05/06