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Thursday, July 06, 2006
McAfee, Inc. Reports Security Threats Doubled in Record Time
McAfee(R) Avert(R) Labs, which added the 100,000th threat to its database in September 2004, officially released protection this week for the 200,000th threat in its database- demonstrating a 60% decrease in the amount of time it took to double the number of threats in the database since September 2004.
McAfee, Inc., the global leader in Intrusion Prevention and Security Risk Management, today announced a significant milestone in the growth of malicious threats faced by businesses and individual users. McAfee Avert Labs combine world-class malicious code and anti-virus research with intrusion prevention and vulnerability research expertise.