January Evil Top Ten from BitDefender
January 2004
January Evil Top Ten from BitDefender
First off, the much-talked-about MyDoom virus has managed to eke into our monthly top 10 � not an easy achievement, considering that it has been released just a few days ago (on the 26th of January, to be more precise).
Not only that, but this nasty critter has managed to show up on our radar one million (that is right, 10^6) times over a period of 24 hours. That says something about how well some people have internalized last year�s lessons, doesn�t it?
Actually, at the top of our top sits a virus which makes a good textbook case of widespread (and distributed) negligence. It�s been months since it was first released, but hey, who�s to say it�s antiquated? We�ve released a sig update and a free cleanup tool within the first few hours, the people at Microsoft have taken some of their precious time to release a cleanup tool of their own, but�
Ladies, gentlemen and other good folk, this month�s highest spreading virus is, well, like it or not, Msblast.A; it seems to be heading swiftly for a dishonorable mention in the virus hall of shame, there to lie along such olden goldies as the Morris worm and the Brain virus.
The entire top ten for this month looks like this:
Virus Name | Infected systems |
Win32.Msblast.A | 18.58% |
Backdoor.Agobot.3.Gen | 17.03% |
Win32.Parite.B | 12.96% |
Backdoor.SDBot.gen | 10.87% |
Trojan.Downloader.Dyfuca.J | 8.78% |
Trojan.Downloader.Dyfuca.V | 8.12% |
Win32.Msblast.B | 7.82% |
Win32.HLLP.Hanta.A | 5.66% |
Win32.Msblast.F | 5.16% |
Win32.Mydoom.A@mm | 4.96% |