McAfee Database has 200,000 Virus Definitions
While the number of virus attacks have reduced in the recent years, the virus growth hasn't slowed down. McAfee has added the 200,000th definition to its threat database today and they expect to see 400,000 virus definitions by 2008.
After a lull in their efforts, virus writers have spent the past few years creating more of this software than ever before, said Jimmy Kuo, a research fellow with McAfee's Avert Labs.
Between 1999 and 2002, McAfee's database held steady at around 50,000 definitions, but since then, the number of different worms and viruses created has jumped, he said.
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