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Computer Virus: How Infected Are We?

In this infographic, we uncover some of the major trends in the malware industry and reveal several interesting statistics about computer viruses. Malware is a collective term for various types of malicious software that infect a user’s computer. These include viruses, worms, Trojans, rootkits, spyware, adware, and several others. Malicious software is becoming a bigger problem with each passing year, and it is growing at an increasingly faster pace than ever before. In fact, last year there were 74,000 new computer viruses created every single day on average.

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Computer Virus: How Infected Are We?