Windows malware

It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly

In the meantime, one of my co-workers went on vacation and treated herself to an MP3 player. She got home and plugged her new toy into a USB port in her PC and yes, you guessed – it was infected.

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March 2008 proved to be somewhat atypical in terms of malicious code in mail traffic.

Amazingly, for the second month in a row, not only has the leader of our Top Twenty not changed but the three programs at the top of the ranking have remained the same.

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Over the last week there has been an enormous upsurge in reports of so called “MonaRonaDona” malware.

Interestingly, of the four families of malicious code which are currently causing epidemics, only Diehard and Bagle are present in the rankings. Their two competitors, Zhelatin and Warezov, appear to be taking something of a break.

It’s been some time since we’ve seen an adware program at the top of our online rankings.

This annual report provides an overview the evolution of malware, adware and potentially malicious programs in 2007, and compares this data to that of 2006.

The year 2007 can be dubbed “the year of online-world fraud” or perhaps “the year of exploiting poor gamers”.

Over the last couple of days we’ve seen spam being sent out which contains a link in it claiming to be a Paris Hilton video.

For the second month in a row, representatives of the new Trojan-Downloader family Diehard have been creating a considerable stir in mail traffic.

There’s no such thing as New Year in the virus world. Statistics for January show that the malware and potential malicious programs in circulation are remarkably similar to those in last month’s rankings.

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