Virus & Malware at an all time high

Let’s face it, antivirus software is not that effective. Even with the best antivirus software with the most up-to-date pattern/virus files, there’s viruses, adware, and spyware that still come through. It’s not until after the fact that it’s already on your machine, duplicating itself, infecting other programs, the registry, and/or the Windows startup sequence that the antivirus software tells you that you have a virus. Then, most of the time it says it found a virus but can’t clean or quarantine it. This usually results in rebooting into another operating system(or recovery console) to delete the virus manually. Tech Bitzhas an article that explains this epidemic in more detail, with a graph that shows how much malware detections have increased since 1985. I don’t particularly agree with this graph, it seems to be skewed mainly for 2006-2007, but that malware detection increase happened before that.