Botnets will become increasingly dangerous, and their use will be traded by attackers for credit card details. Large-scale virus outbreaks are a thing of the past for PCs, but will be replaced by malicious code attacks targeted to steal information from businesses. Ransomware attacks against businesses will be more intent on gaining access to confidential information and intellectual property theft. Botnets are expected to represent more than 95 percent of all of the e-mail sent in 2006more than 95% of e-mails sent each day.”]

