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The 10 more persistent viruses in June
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At the end of each month, Alerta Temprana service SET NOD32 Antivirus, ThreatSense.net publishes a report about the 10 more spread viruses. To do so, this company gathers global statistics in real environment of particular and business uses around the world. |  |
Users of the strong NOD32 volunteered to hand in data about the infections more common in their PCs, so that ESET can create a report to reveal the changers produced in the computer plague, as well as the new threats and new malicious codes, which deserve particular attention.
| Surprisingly, the gigantic amount of the Bagle worm variants does not appear n the ESET publication, however, worms does never stop to appear; they come in bulks in e-mails, which makes them good candidates for this ranking. The Word keeps on appearing with new variants which were discovered by NOD32: GK, GL, GM, GN and GO. |
The List is made up as follows:
1- Swizzor Trojan, spread through spam, it downloads plug-in with characteristics of spyware (6,42%)
2- Brontok.B Worm and Backdoor , spread through spam and shared network resources with a weak protection (4,86%)
3- Netsky.Q Worm, spread through spam and exchange software P2P networks (3,11%)
4- VB.NEI Worm, known as “kamasutra”, appeared in February 2006 with the ability of running the third day of each month (2,11%)
5- BDSearch Adware , it is added to the Internet Explorer tools bar without permission of the user (2,04%)
6- Rbot Trojan, has the ability of duplicating in many directories, specially files of network programs P2P to release copies of itself or infected files (1,74%)
7- Exploit.WMF which exploits several vulnerabilities of Windows during the handling of images WMF (1,62%)
8- P2PNet Adware, appears as a network software 2P, opens ports in the infected PC (1,52%)
9- Hoax Renos, warns false alarms with the aim of leading the users to perform certain tasks (1,37%)
10- Adware HotBar, installs itself without permission; sometimes it is very difficult to remove.
This is the end of the lists of threats, the most harmful during June. It is very important to point put that the ranking indicate dangerous activities of the malware, but it just spreads by itself, therefore any of them can cause considerable damage to the system.
Related Links:
VirusRadar.com
http://www.nod32-la.com/download/informe_bagle.pdf
Details about Bagle by Lic. Cristian Borghello, Technical & Educational Manager of ESET for Latin America.
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