McAfee Avert Labs, the research arm of the popular antivirus vendor, yesterday unveiled its predictions for 2007, based on its analysis of more than 217,000 threats collected to date. “The increasing use of video formats on social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and VideoCodeZone will attract malware writers seeking to easily permeate a wide network,” says David Marcus, security research and communications manager at McAfee Avert Labs. Similarly, the emergence of smarter, better-connected mobile devices and services will make wireless systems a juicy target in 2007. PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC infections, which first emerged in 2006, will increase in 2007, McAfee Avert Labs predicts.