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According to Paul Ducklin, head of Technology, Asia-Pacific, Sophos, globally malware attacks are down from 25,000 per day to some 16,000 per day- a 36 per cent decrease.
However notes Ducklin, the number of infected social and blog sites has risen to "about 2 per cent of the total and recently we saw the Google-owned blogger.com being the carrier of some nasty spybot".
Furthermore, earlier this year Sophos as a company said that 2008 has seen an explosion in malicious software, three times more than in 2007 and that Google-owned Blogger is the most common host for malicious software.
The company also found that Hackers and spammers use social sites like Facebook and MySpace with increasing frequency to spread spyware and viruses.
But says Ducklin, computer users should not be complacent about older forms of PC infection which are still as dangerous today as when they were invented.
