IT and Security: Malware decrease detected

Panda Security, the Cloud Security company, has announced malware decrease. Thus during February 2011, data gathered by Panda ActiveScan, the company’s free online scanner, found that only 39 percent of computers scanned in this month were infected with malware, compared to 50 percent last month. Trojans were found to be the most prolific malware threat, responsible for 61 percent of all cases, followed by traditional viruses and worms which caused 11.59 percent and 9 percent of cases worldwide, respectively. These figures have hardly changed compared to similar data collected in January.

The most prevalent malware specimens detected this February also remained consistent with last month's findings. The CI.A, Downloader.MDW or Lineage.KDB continued to spread and infect systems in approximately the same numbers.

China, Ukraine, Thailand and Taiwan held the top four highest rates of infection (more than 50 percent of cases). Russia also entered Top 10 of malware infected countries. Other countries such as Italy, the U.S. or France recorded rates below 40 percent, but ranked higher than last month.