McAfee sees 400,000 virus definitions by 2008
Although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise, according to McAfee Inc. On Tuesday, McAfee vendor added the 200,000th definition to its threat database, and the security vendor expects the total number of identified threats to double in another two years. McAfee's antivirus products use these definitions as digital fingerprints to determine which software should not be allowed to run on a user's PC.
After a bit of 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.L33tdawg: McAfee's Chief Security Architect, John Viega, will be down in Kuala Lumpur for HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia. Mr. Viega will be delivering the keynote on the 21st of September together with Mark Curphey, Vice President of Foundstone Professional Services - a division of McAfee Inc. Make sure you register early!
