According to the German security company AV-Test, malware has exploded to unprecedented levels in the past five years. More troublingly, they anticipate seeing over 60 million new pieces of malicious software by the end of the 2013. AV-Test went on to say that the system has already recorded “over 20 million samples of new malware between January and the beginning of May.” To put those numbers in context, AV-Test didn’t reach 20 million new samples until August of last year.