Kaspersky lab virus Top 20, February 2005.Highlights: Quietest month in the last twelve, Virus writers focus in on Bagle and a new crop of Trojan--Proxy.Win32-Mitglierder expected in the next few days followed by more phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. emails. Comment: Many antivirus Refers to detecting and blocking computer viruses. See antivirus program, behavior blocking, virus and virus hoaxes. experts believe that email 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. are slowly dying out and being replaced by network worms with Trojan capabilities- February statistics confirm this trend. On the one hand, this could be the result of a successful campaign waged by anti-virus vendors against email 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 outbreaks- The anti-virus industry has implemented a number of innovative technologies to halt email worms in their tracks: detecting worms in password protected archives, preliminary analysis of incoming emails with executable attachments and so forth. On the other hand, today, network worms that exploit vulnerabilities in MS Windows are one of the more serious threats to the Internet In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , antivirus programs Software that searches for known viruses. Also known as a "virus scanner." As new viruses are discovered by the antivirus vendor, their binary patterns are added to a signature database that is downloaded periodically to the user's antivirus program via the Web. need to monitor Internet and network traffic as well as email traffic. Zafi variants continue to play king of the hill: first Zafi.b was on top, then Zafi.d and now Zafi.b is back. Bagle.ay appeared on January 27 and immediately rose to 8th place. In February this Bagle variant variant /var·i·ant/ (var´e-ant) 1. something that differs in some characteristic from the class to which it belongs. 2. exhibiting such variation. var·i·ant adj. managed to climb higher to fourth place. Out of the most famous names of 2004 - Netsky, Mydoom, Zafi, Bagle and Lovgate virus writers seem to be focusing on Bagle only. 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 just detected 6 new variants of Bagle and undoubtedly some of them will be in the March Top Twenty. www.kaspersky.com 1 Email-Worm.Win32Zaft.b 21.71% 2 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.q 18.30% 3 Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.d 13.31% 4 Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ay 7.03% 5 Email-Worm-Win32-NetSky.b 6.94%. 6 Re-entry 4.68% Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle. 7 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.aa 3.29% 8 Email-Worm.Win32-Mydoom.m 2.67% 9 New 2.45% Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ba 10 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.y 2.08% 11 Email-Worm-Win32-Mydoom. 11.83% 12 Email-Worm.Win32.LovGate.w 1.74% 13 Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.d 1.39% 14 Re-entry 0.96%. Email-Worm.Win32.NetSky.x 15 EmailWorm.Win32.NetSky.r 0.91 % 16 Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ai 0.81% 17 Email-Worm.Win32,NetSky.t 0.79%. 18 New 0.55% Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.c 19 Trojan-Spy.HTML.Smitfraud.a 0.49% 20 Re-entry 0.49% Email-Worm.Win32-NetSky.af Other malicious programs 7.58% |
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