During the period, Trend Micro detected a total of 3,185 new malware as compared to 2,236 detections in the previous 30-day period, a company release said in Chennai.
"The number of detections has been steadily growing since December 2004," it said. Though the (computer virus) detection counts slowed down a little towards the end of 2004, it went up again at the turn of the year.
"Meanwhile, the number of newly discovered malware, which takes into account real-time sample submission and case handling, has been steadily increasing since October," it said.
Trend Micro said that during February, the number was pegged at 1,711, only slightly higher than in January, when it was almost double than that of the figure in December 2004.
Computer worms took the lead among malware types in February as more than 1,200 new worm detections were documented.
"Trojans (a type of malware), despite growing slightly from the last month's figures, came in second at 1,083.
Among newly discovered malware, however, Trojans comprise bulk of samples from actual customer submissions," it said. At 778, newly discovered Trojans outnumbered worms during January 21 to February 20, it said.
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