Infected or not?: new research from Panda Software

8th June 2007

Panda Software Company carries out a large research, the aim of which is to assess the extents of criminal activity in the Internet and find out what the actual number of infected computers, and also what types of threats most frequently are installed on PC without the user's knowledge. They offer to take part in the study to all users. To do this, you are to visit the site Infectedornot and scan your computer using online security utilities NanoScan and TotalScan. Both applications are scanning and detecting malicious software not in the users system but in Panda servers.
Specialists of Panda Software decided to carry out such research, as currently new dynamic of malicious software goes on developing, within the bounds of which the creators of threats dedicated their work, especially, to the theft of confidential information. Cyber-criminals are trying to infect computers secretly, in order neither the user nor the anti-virus company could not reveal new copies of malicious codes. Such malicious codes as viruses and worms, which have been traditionally the cause of major epidemics, now they are replaced by other, criminally oriented malicious codes: Trojans, bots and spyware. Besides, the number of malicious software is constantly growing, which uses â€œhidden technologiesâ€, for example, rootkits.