Bitdefender carried out a Windows 8 security test on the most frequently-encountered 100 families of malware. The test revealed that 15 percent of these well-known pieces of malware can bypass security mechanisms built into Windows 8. Among the most dangerous applications that ran smoothly on Windows 8 were backdoors and password-stealing applications. Other e-threats that can pose significant damage to the system are Brazilian banker Trojans bank phishing tools embedded in executable files. Backdoor-capable malware poses serious threats to computer users.”]