BBC NEWS | Technology | Virus flood threatens home users:

“Instead of releasing Windows viruses intermittently, many creators of worms and trojans are pumping them out with increasing frequency.

For a while new variants of one virus, called Mytob, were appearing every hour. Some viruses appear in hundreds of different guises.

This tactic is designed to fox security firms that use software to scan e-mail attachments for the signatures of known viruses.”

And yet another reason that I’m glad that I’m not doing tech support…

(Via BBC News UK edition.)