Growth of malware: latest update

As an update to my May post on Andreas Marx�s chart on the growth of malware, here are the latest stats from AV-Test.org.

Unique samples added by month:

Total number of unique samples in the AV-Test zoo:

According to Marx, �if you look at the graphics, you can see that anti-virus companies have to deal with more than one million unique new malware samples per month. In total, we have over 22 million unique malicious programs in our collection.�

That�s a lot of malware�

(Original Excel spreadsheet here.)

Alex Eckelberry