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Wow… 'really sad. 
- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/gr…of-malware.html
January 24, 2008 - "Interesting data from Andreas Marx at AV-Test.org . This chart shows the growth of unique samples (by MD5) per year…
Year # of unique samples (MD5) (Abbreviated list)
1985 564
1986 910
1987 389
1988 1,738…
2005 333,425
2006 972,606
2007 5,490,960
It's worth noting that these numbers are also increasing because of variants – i.e. the same Trojan will be changed sometimes hourly or daily just to try and fool the scanners. So it's not like there's over 5 million unique pieces of malware. There are many that are variants of the same piece of malware. Nevertheless, this is a good representation of the staggering load of malware that anti-malware folks are under… A small platoon won’t win this war. You need a brigade."
> http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/m…remd5charts.PNG
- http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/gr…of-malware.html
January 24, 2008 - "Interesting data from Andreas Marx at AV-Test.org . This chart shows the growth of unique samples (by MD5) per year…
Year # of unique samples (MD5) (Abbreviated list)
1985 564
1986 910
1987 389
1988 1,738…
2005 333,425
2006 972,606
2007 5,490,960
It's worth noting that these numbers are also increasing because of variants – i.e. the same Trojan will be changed sometimes hourly or daily just to try and fool the scanners. So it's not like there's over 5 million unique pieces of malware. There are many that are variants of the same piece of malware. Nevertheless, this is a good representation of the staggering load of malware that anti-malware folks are under… A small platoon won’t win this war. You need a brigade."
> http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/m…remd5charts.PNG
The bad guys have been hard at work… sheesh. All that is for windows systems, I am assuming ?