IM And P2P Malware Threats Nearly Triple

Security threats exploiting instant messaging (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) clients jumped by over 270 percent in the past year, a group of IM providers and security firms said Tuesday in a first-ever report.

The IMlogic Threat Center, a database of past and emerging IM and P2P worms, viruses, and other exploits, is a joint effort among public IM providers America Online, Microsoft, and Yahoo, along with security firms such as Symantec, McAfee, and IMlogic.

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