- Greediest Trojan targeting banks
Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banker.rqk leads this month, even though it only attacks 26 banks, a relatively low number. - Greediest Trojan targeting payment systems
In August, a new modification of Backdoor.Win32.Agobot.gen won this category by targeting four payment systems simultaneously. - Greediest Trojan targeting payment cards
Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banbra.vf targets four payment card systems. - Stealthiest malicious program
Following last month’s victory, the Hupigon family makes another appearance with Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.nqr – a program packed with seven different packers. - Smallest malicious program
Trojan.BAR.Tiny.a is a mere 31 bytes in size; it searches the system for applications and runs any it finds. - Largest malicious program
Trojan-Banker.Win32.Banker.qwp is only 27 MB in size – not particularly large for this category, but it still manages to take the prize. - Most widespread malicious code which exploits a web vulnerability
Trojan-Clicker.HTML.IFrame.uu. - Most common malicious program on the Internet
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Small.aacq, the winner of this category which was introduced last month, is responsible for every 20th infection. - Most common Trojan program
Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon makes another appearance in this miscellany with 1044 modifications this month. - Most common virus/ worm family
August brought 75 modifications of Worm.Win32.AutoRun, a relatively small number for the winner of this category.
Malware Miscellany, August 2008
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Malware Miscellany, August 2008