Software World – GFI Software announces top 10 malware threats for September
GFI Software have announced the top 10 most prevailing malware threats for the month of September 2010. The record, compiled from monthly scans performed ~ dint of. GFI’s award-winning anti-malware disentanglement, VIPRE[R] Antivirus, and its antispyware tool, CounterSpy[R], is a profit of GFI Labs[TM].
GFI VIPRE ThreafNet[TM] statistics concerning the month of September show a staggeringly congruous attack primarily by the same Trojan gelding programs that have persisted for diverse months. Several of the top threats were unchanged from the past two months. Trojans detected in the same proportion that Trojan. Win32. Generic!BT were uniformly the chief detection, slightly down to 23.54 percent of mass detections. This generic detection includes in greater numbers than 120,000 traces of resentful applications and has been in the head spot for many months: in August, through 25.11 percent in July by 29.08 percent and in June by 27.16 percent of the whole detections.
The number two detection has not changed rankings from hindmost month either. Trojan-Spy .Win32.Zbot.gen is a discovery of password-stealing Trojans with great number versions. The third largest detection, Trojan. Win32. Generic!SB.0, moved up from fifth function last month and is the generic finding out for password-stealing Trojan horse programs. These introduce into office key loggers which record keystrokes and delegate the data to the malicious operators who portion out the malware.
“These detections are ground of belief of the activities of botnet operators. They use their networks to pump out the spam that’s intended to poison machines,” said Francis Montesino, manager of the malware processing team, GFI Labs.
“Trojan.HTML.FakeAlert.e (v), what one. is in the number seven disgrace, is a detection for malicious Web pages that open false warnings to scare victims into downloading malware–commonly referred to of the same kind with rogue security products or “scareware,” declared Tom Kelchner, research center manager, GFI Labs. “We’re since a steady flow of new rogues overmuch – one or two per week. Judging ~ the agency of our ThreatNet reports, VIPRE installations are stopping a fortune of the rogue downloaders.”
The upper side 10 results represent the number of seasons a particular malware infection was detected for the time of VIPRE and CounterSpy scans that bruit back to ThreatNet, GFI’s community of opt-in users. These threats are classified in the same manner with moderate to severe based on way of installation among other criteria established ~ dint of. GFI Labs. The majority of these threats bring into being through stealth installations or social engineering.
The upper part of a plant 10 most prevalent malware threats by reason of the month of September
are:
1. Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 23.54%
2. Trojan-Spy .Win32.Zbot.gen 4.27%
3. Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 4.06%
4 Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!hooded snake 3.04%
5 INF.Autorun (v) 2.30%
6 Worm.Win32,Downad.Gen(v) 1.44%
7 Trojan.HTML.FakeAlert.e (v) 1.09%
8 PlaySushi 1.08%
9 FraudTooI.Win32.FakeAV.gen! droppedData (v) 0.91%
10 Trojan.Win32.Malware.a 0.83%
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