16,000 new viruses - dslreports.com

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BeesTea Network Janitor Premium,VIP join:2003-03-08 00000	16,000 new viruses I wonder what percentage of these new viruses were just reconfigured/compiled variations of existing malware ? It probably helps the bottom line to count every variant as a new virus if you're in the detection business, but I'd be interested in seeing some deeper data. -- Captain of the ATU Tux Racer Clan.
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toadlife Premium join:2004-05-03 Lemoore, CA ·AT&T Yahoo	Yeah I think 15,320 of them are Sober variants. The Av companies have resorted to just attaching serial numbers to end end of each new version. Sober-A156S53 Sober-A156S54 Sober.... -- Security is a process, not a Penquin.
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ghost16825 Use security metrics Premium join:2003-08-26	reply to BeesTea said by BeesTea : I wonder what percentage of these new viruses were just reconfigured/compiled variations of existing malware ? It's really hard to give a short answer on this. If you're really interested check out F-secure's virus variant diagrams (through diary blog?). The first handful of variants are similar to the original virus, but you may be surprised to find out that that some Sober variants have more in common with Bagle variants and vice versa etc. (Some of those wall charts look pretty funky too) -- Admin of the Kerio 2x-like open source project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kerio/ http://kerio.sourceforge.net/
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