As 2007 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the current threat landscape. The past 12 months comprised a record-breaking year. McAfee® recorded well over 100,000 new viruses and Trojans, a 50 percent jump in the total number of threats ever cataloged.

The Nuwar virus (a.k.a. Storm Worm) grew into the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet to date, while TJ Max revealed the largest data breach in history. Other areas saw significant growth as well, from phishing attacks to crimeware, from vulnerabilities disclosed to zero-day exploits; 2007 was a big year for threats.

McAfee, Inc. today announced that McAfee(R) VirusScan(R) Mobile, which is included in McAfee's Triple Play offer, is now available for download at http://us.mcafee.com.

McAfee currently offers market-leading defense for consumers' PCs and Internet experiences, and the new mobile security component protects against threats that originate from e-mail, instant messages and multimedia downloads in various mobile devices.

SimWorks Anti-Virus protects phone's from all known viruses including Cabir a, Cabir b, Cabir c, the Mosquitoes dialer trojan and the recently discovered Skulls trojan and is compatible with all phones using the Symbian operating system such as the popular SonyEricsson P800/P900 and Nokia's 6600.

A new vulnerability has been discovered in Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh which may allow an user to run arbitrary code as root. An executable used by the Mount Scan feature of Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh and Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh runs with root access. A member of group admin could replace this executable with code of their choice, and gain user root access.

ESET, the leader in proactive threat protection, announced the introduction of ESET Smart Security, a new, integrated security solution for consumers and small-to-medium-sized businesses. It includes antivirus, antispyware, antispam and firewall features built on ESET’s award-winning advanced heuristic ThreatSense® detection system and the ESET NOD32 scanning engine.

ESET Smart Security combines speed, accuracy and minimal computer system impact to deliver a significant improvement over traditional solutions in the marketplace today. It provides the industry’s highest level of accuracy and fewest false-positives through ESET NOD32 Antivirus . With significantly lower performance overhead compared to the competition, ESET Smart Security uses only 40MB of disk space and scans systems up to 30-times faster than other products.