With the World Wide Web becoming increasingly popular in the last century, the problem of Malicious Software’s or Malware is increasing at rocket fast rates. This is nothing to be astonished about as the networking systems today are becoming bigger and more complex. Let’s take a standardized look at the routes of malware programs and what we can do to quarantine it.

The information technology that the world is dependent on today for its smooth running is becoming more interlocked than ever. Dependencies arise due to this inter connection which are impossible to understand. Apart from this, there is software complexity which in turn is leading to a serious extension in software vulnerability and the root of all cause is MALWARE.

Every year new malicious software’s are leaked into the world network and this problem keeps on growing and becoming increasing complex and bigger.

Let’s chalk out the current standing of Malware on the threat chart and the measures me can take to disinfect the system. 

At present, malwares pose a great deal of threat to the networking system as a whole. All the mainstream discussions in relation to malicious software put emphasis on Web malware activities. A good reason behind this is Web based software apps are always an easy target. The problem of direct application downloads from 3rd party websites is leading to a series of malware attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). This APT is growing at impossibly fast rates and is posing a great threat to Global Software Security.
There is also a problem of malwertising, meaning bad advertising which is growing at such consistent rates that it is doubling quarterly instead of yearly.

An APT named Zeus has been termed as the biggest malware threat of the century. It is a web originated malware which injects itself into a victim’s pc and steals personal legitimate verification credentials of clients. Banks are facing a huge problem in determining whether their servers are dealing with actual customers or a Malware program impersonating a customer.

Malware programs are not limited to the Web only, they can and will infest in any widespread software program or software. Like Microsoft ten years ago got affected, off recent Adobe programs have been getting nailed by this viral infection. Adobe is doing all it can to improve its Software Security Stance at the moment.

Wishful thinking for securing software 

A long term measure that could be adopted to stop this Malware growth is to build high security software. Malicious programs always need a loophole in the software security to infiltrate the code and inject them into the program. In simplified language malware thrives on broken software’s. To make this move tangible there is a list of 20 exact software bugs that are presently targeted by malwertising and Web based malicious software.

When the bugs and loopholes in the programs are all taken care of, malware authors will have to start from scratch. Though this might seem to be wishful thinking, but this is only the best way out of the monstrous situation we have created for ourselves. Auspiciously, most of the big names like Microsoft; Norton etc. are taking a resolute approach in tightening the security of their software applications. The result being, most of the software’s that are getting launched now days are very secure and less susceptible to malware threats.