Also if a pc is an up-to-date antivirus program, the trojan horses that bank account information to steal an average of 25 days of their work continue to do so, according to research by SurfRight. If the existing package is not updated, the active period of the trojans even on to 81 days.
SurfRight has an analysis released data that the company between October 2011 and October 2012, of HitmanPro-protection suite. The data comes from the scanning of a total of 2.465.497 systems of users in that period.
HitmanPro reported under other what trojan horse was found, on which date the system has nestled and any antivirus program already on the computer turned. When the analysis founded SurfRight on the presence of the banking trojans Zeus, Citadel, SpyEye and Tinba.
The statistics are from computer owners who HitmanPro for the first time used. Usually this software for a second opinion used and the user already had the suspicion that there is malware on his system. The figures are perhaps a little flattered, Mark Loman of SurfRight. “Still, it is a clear indication that the life of a banking trojan is substantially reduced is if an antivirus program is fully updated,” he writes. According to Loman, the period of 25 days that the trojans are not detected remain for a long time, but to stop anti-malware programs the majority of malicious software, but simply not all.