According to the Cisco 4Q10 Global Threat Report [PDF file], Web malware grew by 139 percent in 2010 compared to 2009.

"Enterprise users experienced an average of 135 web malware encounters per month in 2010, with the highest number, 250 per month, occurring in October 2010," Infosecurity reports.

"Search engine-related traffic resulted in 8 percent of Web malware encountered in the fourth quarter, with the majority occurring from Google (3.84 percent), down from 7 percent from Google in the third quarter," the article states. "Collectively, malicious webmail resulted in only 1% of encounters for the fourth quarter."

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