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Complexity Kills Innovation
By  Kelly Martin  Feb 17 2005 02:34PM PT

There's more innovation coming from today's virus writers than from the 
big software companes whose core goals are to progress and innovate.

Viruses grew by over 25% in 2004. We're at about 115,000 viruses today, 
and the virus variants and mutations continue to grown in record 
numbers. One might venture to forecast, using current trends, that we'll 
have 150,000 Windows viruses by the end of 2005, although it's anyone's 
guess. Look for anti-virus vendors starting to deliver definition 
updates every day, or even twice a day. Are we ever going to find a 
solution to the virus problem?

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