Security threats Toolkit

Spam-seeding viruses dominate August charts

Matt Loney ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 01 Sep 2004 16:37 BST

MessageLabs top 10 virus threats for August

1 W32/Netsky.P-mm
2 W32/Zafi.B-mm
3 W32/Netsky.Z-mm
4 W32/Mydoom.S-m
5 W32/Bagle.Z-mm
6 W32/NetSky.D-mm
7 W32/Netsky.Q-mm
8 W32/Mydoom.M-mm
9 W32/Netsky.B-mm
10 W32/Bagle.AI-mm

Panda top 10 virus threats for August

1 Trj/Downloader.GK
2 Trj/Briss.A
3 Trj/Qhost.gen
4 Exploit/Mhtredir.gen
5 W32/Sasser.ftp
6 W32/Netsky.P.worm
7 Trj/Downloader.OG
8 Trj/StartPage.FH
9 W32/Gaobot.gen.worm
10 Trj/Downloader.JH

Central Command top 10 virus threats for August

1 Worm/Netsky.P
2 Worm/Netsky.Z
3 Worm/Zafi.B
4 Worm/Netsky.D
5 Worm/Netsky.C
6 Worm/MyDoom.M
7 Worm/Netsky.Q
8 Worm/Bagle.AA
9 Worm/Netsky.B
10 Worm/LovGate.AH

TrendLabs top 10 virus threats for August

1 Worm_Sasser.B
2 PE_ZAFI.B
3 Worm_Netsky.P
4 HTML_Netsky.P
5 Worm_Netsky.D
6 Worm_Netsky.B
7 Worm_Netsky.Z
8 Worm_Mydoom.M
9 Java_Bytever.A
10 Trojan_Agent.AE

Sophos top 10 virus threats for August

1 W32/Zafi-B
2 W32/Netsky-P
3 W32/MyDoom-O
4 W32/Netsky-D
5 W32/Netsky-Z
6 W32/Bagle-AA
7 W32/Netsky-B
8 W32/Lovgate-V
9 W32/Netsky-Q
10 W32/Netsky-C