MAlWARE MILESTONES : History Of Computer Viruses

[INDRANIL]

A multitude of e-threats claimed the award for the most innovative, most dangerous or most pervasive piece of malware in the wild. It is a game that malware creators have played with victims – the computer users - or with their arch-enemies – the AV industry – since computers were too large to fit in a regular room and were anything but “personal.” Here is a nice infograpic --

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[Stranger]

The era of 2000 to 2004 was more dangerous as I heard from my seniors and parents that many av were not able to detect 40% of threat and whoever give good percent of security are heavier on system.They dont have light security as mbam and hitman nowadays. The av were used to crawl down system . The processor were not that high quality and above all the hardware cost was so much high that even people who afford to buy power for their machine think twice before buying.
Now things have chanced a lot