Online viruses, worms and Trojans tops a million

"The scale of harmful software has never been so high," warned F-Secure, which only recently expected that the threshold of 1 million viruses on the internet would be exceeded at the end of 2008. "Today the criminals focus on attacking the most popular internet sites. This means there is a need to maintain security," said Stephen Trilling of Symantec. According to the report, seven in ten attacks were an attempt to steal information about the users, most often with the use of phishing. "Also, in Poland, this type of attack is increasing. Recently we had a series of attacks on the websites of banks," said Mirosław Maj, manager of CERT Polska.