The number of known viruses surpassed 70,000 in January 2002. Of those, 26.1% are macro viruses, 26.1% are Trojan horses, 19.2% are executable and 6.8% are script viruses. Other virus types (Unix, boot sector, internet worms, file, Macintosh and multipartite) account for the remaining 21.8%. During 2001 79% of infections reported to Sophos were due to executable viruses, 12% were due to script viruses and 4% were due to macro viruses. The remaining 5% of infections were due to Trojan horses, Unix and boot sector viruses. Note that a reported infection is counted as a single unit regardless of whether the virus infected one machine or 10,000 machines: the statistics quoted are not 'bomb-proof' but simply an indication of what is out there.

The number of new viruses discovered every month continues to increase. In the last quarter of 2001, a major antivirus lab was processing around 1200 new viruses each month.

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