14 DAY TRIAL // This is the hot top 10 viruses, containing the old Netsky.P that is still holding up against Storm and with the Kobcka Trojan as a new-entry. Many viruses pop up every day, others fade away, while still others plague us for a very very long time. The Netsky.P is dubbed as 'ancient' by the BitDefender experts and is bound to be on of the oldest e-mail borne malware that still threatens users. Of course, as you might have expected it, the "Virus of the month" for August goes to?. Storm! Of course! It has many names, but it's the same thing.
In any case, here's the top10 by BitDefender:
1. Trojan.Peed.Gen 24.7% 2. Exploit.Win32.WMF-PFV 21.5% 3. BehavesLike:Trojan.Downloader 19.06% 4. Win32.Netsky.P@mm 5.89% 5. Trojan.Pandex.H 2.54% 6. Win32.NetSky.D@mm 1.92% 7. Win32.Nyxem.E@mm 1.80% 8. Win32.Netsky.AA@mm 1.80% 9. Trojan.Kobcka.A 1.24% 10. Win32.Sality.M 1.24%
"The fact that Trojan.Kobcka racked up 1.24% of the total malware detections and made it into our top ten suggests that we may see it or new variants of it infect even more machines in the coming months" said Viorel Canja, head of BitDefender Labs.
Sure, these charts may vary with different security experts, but after reading all the Storm-related news, can you have any doubt that it isn't a top threat? To be safe on the web, you need to get an anti-virus on your machine. You can get a free one form Avira, AVG or Avast, and of course there are other open AV developers, all you need to do is search the web. But if you're not satisfied with those, try and buy one from other developers. Some say that open anti-viruses aren't as good as the ones you have to pay for, but I think that it actually depends on each user and the place on the Web you navigate to?