Market research firm IDC had previously forecast that by 2008, global mobile security software market from 2003 of 70 million U.S. dollars rose to 993 million U.S. dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 70 percent. Symantec's spokesman Sanchidrian said, "Mobile security market is in its infancy, and from the areas of the threat of the virus is not confined only to the extent of attacks on Windows."