Malware levels hit a new high in the first half of this year, according to McAfee.
The security firm said total malware production continued to soar and 10 million new pieces of malicious code were catalogued.
"Our latest threat report depicts that malware has been on a steady incline in the first half of 2010," Mike Gallagher, chief technology officer of Global Threat Intelligence for McAfee, said in the report that was obtained by Reuters.