Top 10 most dangerous viruses in June 2006
Security firm Sophos has just released a list of the Top 10 most dangerous viruses in June 2006. Accordingly, the Netsky-P virus continues to dominate the first place in this list.
This is a monthly recurring report built up from the collection of data on the wide spread of malware categories over a period of one month.
Netsky is an extremely dangerous type of virus, which began to spread vigorously via email since it appeared on the Internet in 2004. Just earlier this year, another variant of the virus appeared. and raging online. Helping Netsky continue to dominate the leading position in the ranking of Top 10 most dangerous viruses every month for a long time.
According to statistics from Sophos security firm, in June, the rate of notifications for Netsky virus sent to the company remained at 16.7% - equal to the previous month's number - on the total number of Virus reports received by Sophos.
Meanwhile, the statistics of Kaspersky Lab security firm said that in June this rate of Netsky virus spread has decreased significantly. The company said that in July, Netsky will no longer be on the top virus list.
Along with that, in the list of June we see a spectacular overthrow of the Mytob-AS virus variant. In the list of Top 10 most dangerous viruses in May, this virus variant has climbed to the 4th position from position 10 in the April list. In June, this virus variant overthrew Zafi- D to take the No. 2 position on the chart with more than 10.4% of the rate of virus infection notifications sent to Sophos. Zafi-D was pushed back to position 6.
Contrary to the situation of Zafi-D, Nyxem-D continued to preserve its 3rd position with 7.4% of the rate of virus infection notifications sent to Sophos - a 0.1% decrease compared to the figure of last month.
The Mytob family continues to dominate the ranking of June with "5 members". The highest position is Mytob-AS, at number 2.
This time, the ranking of the Top 10 most dangerous viruses in June saw the appearance - or rather the return - of the Bagle virus. Just appearing, the latest variant of the Bagle virus has captured the No. 7 spot on the chart with 3.7% reporting rate of infection sent to Sophos.
Other types of malicious software accounted for 33.3% of all infections sent to Sophos in the past month.
Hoang Dung
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