Windows malware

This half-year report examines changes in malware compared with to the second half of 2006.

Greediest Trojan targeting payment systems, stealthiest malicious program, most common malicious program in mail traffic, most common Trojan family and others.

Netsky.q is once again in first place. This worm has finally achieved notoriety as the most widespread malicious program in the history of the Internet.

September’s Online Top Twenty was a little unusual in terms of the movement of the entries.

Pinch is a true omnivore – it grabs just about everything it can from the victim machine: the Windows license number, system information, a list of programs installed, as well as ICQ, email and FTP passwords.

The middle of the month means it’s time for our miscellany, so let’s take a look at what the final month of summer brought us.

August once again turned out to be “dead season” for virus epidemics in 2007

It seemed as though we had almost completely got rid of the Rays and Brontok worms

As we gradually start the transition to autumn, let’s take a moment to look at the miscellaneous malware we saw at the height of summer 2007.

The activity of the botnet that was created in May via the Agent.bqs Trojan was only reaching its “design capacity” in June; by July it was in full swing

After a short break, Trojan Dialers are again at the top of the rankings based on the results of our July online scanner activity

Virus Descriptions 101

The middle of the month means it’s time for our miscellany, so let’s take a look at what the first month of summer brought us

Blackmailer – the return of Gpcode

We’re seeing a lot of reports about a new version of Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.acd. This backdoor is a fairly limited IRCBot with spy capabilities combined with MSN-Worm functionality.