July virus top 20: old timer NetSky squeezes out Mytob.1. Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q 14.67% 2. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.c 13.58% 3. Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.b 8.01% 4. Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.d 6.54% 5. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.be 6.12% 6. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bk 6.07% 7. Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.aa 4.41% 8. New Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.bt 2.65% 9. Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.b 2.52% 10. Net-Worin.Win32.Mytob.bi 2.11% 11. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.au 1.85% 12. Re-entry Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.d 1.73% 13. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.u 1.62% 14. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.ar 1.59% 15. Email-Worm.Win32.LovGate.w 1.59% 16. Net-Worm. Win32.Mytob.q 1.37% 17. Net-Worm.Win32.Mytob.t 1.30% 18. Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.1 1.20% 19. Re-entry Email-Worm.Win32.Mydoom.m 1.17% 20. Re-entry Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ah 1.04% Other malicious programs 18.86% Comment Amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. things are happening in the world of computer viruses. No sooner had a new generation of network worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. made its presence felt and some of the veterans disappeared from our ratings, than the 'old favourites 'bounced back again in July, and in no uncertain terms. Mytob.c has been at the top of the ratings for three months, having deposed 2004's leader, NetSky.q. More and more variants of the Mytob family appeared, and the Virus Top Twenty was threatening to turn into a Mytob Top Twenty. But suddenly everything has changed. NetSky.q is once again in first place, in its own strange way marking the sentence given to its author Sven Jaschan Sven Jaschan (born April 29 1986) is the self-confessed author of the NetSky and Sasser computer worms. History Jaschan lived in the village of Waffensen, Germany and attended a computer science school in nearby Rotenburg. . In spite of in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. See also: Spite the fact that yet another Mytob has appeared in the Top Twenty, the overall number of Mytobs has fallen from 13 to 10. And they have been squeezed out not by new worms, but by our old friends from the Bagle, Zafi, Mydoom and of course NetSky families. Of course, the most surprising factor here is what's happened to Zafi, for the second month in a row. In June, Zaft.d rose 6 places in the ratings, bringing it to 3rd place. In July, almost exactly the same thing happened with Zaft.b! This worm worm, common name for various unrelated invertebrate animals with soft, often long and slender bodies. Members of the phylum Platyhelminthes, or the flatworms, are the most primitive; they are generally small and flat-bodied and include the free-living planarians (of rose five places, gaining the very same 3rd place. This is completely unexpected, and as yet Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia Kaspersky and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. has no concrete explanation as to why two Hungarian polyglot pol·y·glot adj. Speaking, writing, written in, or composed of several languages. n. 1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages. 2. worms, which send spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). in more than 15 European languages, have found themselves in the top five. www.kaspersky.com |
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