An increase in malware over the year reflects a greater level of sophistication on the part of the spammers. Network Box claims that it blocked a spam or malware once every 63 seconds during 2010.

This year, Network Box is set to launch a Network Vulnerability Scanning service that is expected to improve the protection it can offer to its customers.

Gazeley said the Network Vulnerability Scanning service will pro-actively scan networks for unauthorised servers/services.

Internet security has become very significant due to increasing episodes of cyber crime. A newly released report by Eurostat on Internet security in the EU region indicates that computers of one-third of the Internet users were affected with some or other form of virus.