Attacks – The 12 Minute Virus.

According to Sophos, a London-based security company, they have detected a 59-percent increase in new viruses just in the first half of 2005. Some of these 7,944 new viruses can infect a computer in a much shorter time span than previous viruses. In fact, if your computer is not maintained with the proper updates it can become infected in 12 minutes by a variety of malicious code designed to attack Windows based computers. Each successful attack can infect your computer with multiple Trojans, create back-door breaches and add spyware. Additionally, May showed an increase of 33-percent over the previous month in infected email traffic; 30-percent of all emails contain some form of virus and 69-percent of inbound email contained spam. It is a good reminder for all of us to maintain our computers.