Be Careful when You Surf on Tuesday

Be careful when you surf on Tuesday. Because, on Tuesday malware occupy the highest volume than other days throughout the week. Meanwhile, on Monday took second place as the most dangerous day to surf.

This was the result of research conducted SonicWALL, a provider of security services, as reported by eWEEK.

The study is the observation SonicWALL throughout 2010. Ed Cohen, vice-president of e-mail security Sonic Wall's mentioned, it is unclear why so Tuesday's favorite day for malware spreaders. Cohen predicted that result from a relationship with the day Microsoft's Patch Tuesday announcement. Every Tuesday, Microsoft usually announces the patches for its products. SonicWALL Researchers also saw the same trends occurred in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States and some European countries.

The amount of malware that is in 2010 also reported increased threefold over the previous year. "PDF-exploits, Java-based exploits are the most common attacks so far this year, " explained Cohen. He also predicted an increase in malware attacks on mobile devices (mobile). Conficker Worm , Zeus Trojan, anti virus fakes, and exploits the Web as Gumbla and Phoenix are the three major malware this year. Conficker is a type of worm that will control from remote or co-opt your computer to be a slave (termed as a zombie) of the creator of this worm. While Zeus is a type of Trojan that will spy on and steal your bank account. Using phishing scams are also becoming a serious problem.