That's partly because malware is now often polymorphic but also because the company is seeing more custom attacks.
Spreading a threat in the wild increases the chances it will be detected and identified, but a custom malware attack can fly under the radar.
In raids on factories, warehouses and shops in New York City and Los Angeles, customs agents attacked a Korean organized crime ring that manufactured clothing, handbags and sporting goods overseas for sale here under counterfeit labels.
Then, one sweltering Saturday morning, she came back with a four-page (single-spaced, typewritten) custom plan of attack, prepared to spend as long as it might take (at the rate of $75 an hour) to get me organized.
I imagine though that this life-affirming Greek custom is under attack from the supposedly "hard-working" Germans, who, one gets the impression, have been encouraging the Greeks to toil harder in return for loans following the recent financial collapse.
Recent history is no guide, except in the ways of Washington hypocrisy.In a column yesterday, Eugene Robinson wrote that Dick Cheney was ignoring the "long-established custom" of not attacking the new president and his policies.
American authorities also foiled what they said was a terrorist attack when customs agents arrested an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam as he drove a car with explosives into the United States from Canada.
Mr. Kean also has attacked the custom of senatorial courtesy as "pernicious". He said dozens of his appointments to various boards and commissions were being held up by a number of senators, but that these appointments usually did not attract the public notice that a judicial nomination did.
Malware developers create custom code for stealthy attacks, and design viruses and Trojans that can change their code just enough to avoid detection by signature scanners.
In his first public controversy in 1522, he attacked the custom of fasting during Lent.
