Today, Scandoo’s parent company ScanSafe published its Global Threat Report. It is a monthly analysis of the 5 billion web requests ScanSafe protects for its international corporate customer base.
Interestingly for Scandoo users, they saw 71% of users unknowingly attempting to install Adware and Spyware ridden browser helper objects (generally things like toolbars). Interestingly enough Screensaver related spyware dropped from the Top 10 Spyware. It seems that the media attention that area arrived at, and the availability of services like ours, is both stopping people from trying to download these nasty programs, and encouraging Screensaver spyware mongers to clean up their act. Although we think they’ll just move to another medium, but since we scan each request, we’ll be able to keep up with them.
Other interesting bits of information were that Spy ware/Ad ware protection blocks had increased by 9% on the previous month and of the total blocked, 5.7% were 'drive by install' attempts (installs which aren't transparent to the user that they are installing an application).
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