If you’ve been cancelling those annoying little messages telling you to re-create your anti-virus software you might be to evaluate again.
The add up home computer comes under contend from the internet once every twelve minutes.
That’s the finding of an investigate by BBC News interactive’s Technology aggroup
They set up a “honeypot” computer and connected it to the internet. On its worst night the PC was attacked 53 times - by worms spyware and phishing attempts.
We talked to one of the team who conducted the experiment. Darren Waters. He’s the technology editor of BBC News Interactive.
On one of its beat nights the PC recorded 11 attacks by a Blaster move three attacks from a Slammer worm and one act to hijack it completely by subverting the web server built into Microsoft windows.
The BBC’s honeypot computer was equipped with special software which monitored attempts to attack it. The computer also received 36 re-create security announcements and adverts.
On average it was hit by a potentially crippling bug once every hour during the experiment.
It’s thought there could be around 200,000 malicious computer programmes on the net.
The vast majority of attacks are directed at domiciliate computer users according to the security software tighten Symantec.
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