PandaLabs joined in with the online security companies that released viral rankings for July and made public its own top virus threats for the past month. The statistics indicate stagnant tendencies associated with online threats and the absence of massive infection campaigns. PandaLabs' parameters reveal instead a constant flux of low profile malicious code involved in online fraud, and for the 12th consecutive month, Sdbot.ftp. Belonging to the Sdbot family of worms that compromise computers via the RPC-DCOM and LSASS vulnerabilities, Sdbot.ftp has taken the viral stage and the number one position in ActiveScan's top for July. Sdbot.ftp has amassed a total of 1.78% of all detections made by PandaLabs.

W32/Bagle.pwdzip, a worm conjugating several versions of the Bagle family was runner up. Combining Bagle.F, Bagle.G, Bagle.H, Bagle.I, Bagle.N and Bagle.O, W32/Bagle.pwdzip spreads via infected archive .zip email attachments protected by passwords to render the immune to antivirus scans.

Netsky.P and Trj/Torpig.DC Trojan came in third and fourth and Exploit/Metafile was fifth, with 0.88%, 0.70% and 0.63% presence. "Many of the threats described in the ranking allow theft of information that can then be used fraudulently, for example to access user bank accounts. This situation has become increasingly dangerous in 2006, with malware creators driven by the dynamic of online crime," stated PandaLabs.