“This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats”
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The top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of April are compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt’s award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy(tm), and is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs. New threats that appear for the first time in the top ten lists include the Trojan.Vxgame and Blaire threats. Trojan.Vxgame is a severe threat — a Trojan program that silently downloads additional malware from the Internet and lowers a user’s system security settings by disabling the Windows firewall. Blaire is also a high risk threat — a worm distributed through mass emails. Once executed on a user’s computer, it functions as a backdoor, opens illicit network connections, and uses polymorphic tactics to self-mutate, disable security software, modify system files, and install additional malware. The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy scans that report to ThreatNet(tm), Sunbelt’s community of opt-in users of CounterSpy.
The top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of April were:
- Trojan.FakeAlert
- Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media
-Codec - Trojan.NewMediaCodec
- ClickSpring.PuritySCAN
- Virtumonde
- Slagent/Navipromo
- CWS.DesktopHijack
- Trojan.Vxgame
- Blaire
- Backdoor.Rbot
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May 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 am
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