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“This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats”
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.
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This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats
In the world of malware, we can see some distinct variations. One of these is the key logger. Moving into our 3 spot this week is BehavesLikeWin32.Keylogger. I wonder if you have to take a special class to name these suckers. Anyway, BehavesLikeWin32.Keylogger is a pain in the butt and if you find it get rid of it. It is categorized as a Surveillance Tool. The name is self-explanatory, but just so you know Surveillance Tools are software applications that monitor and capture data from computers including screenshots, keystrokes, web cam and microphone data, instant messaging chat sessions, email, visited websites, programs run and files accessed and files shared on a P2P (peer to peer) network. The whole enchilada!
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