Study finds that malware infections growing
A recent report by a security startup company suggests that the number of Web pages infected with malware almost doubled in the last quarter, compared with a year ago.
More than 560,000 Web sites and their approximately 5.5 million pages were infected with malware in 2009's fourth quarter, according to Dasient, based in Palo Alto, Calif.
In those three months, sites for Fox Sports, technology blog Gizmodo and the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich., were exploited to deliver malware to unsuspecting visitors. In contrast, a Microsoft security report identified about 3 million infected pages during the last quarter of 2008.
