Top 10 security risks in 2007

Spam and trojans continue to hold the top spot in the "threat" list for computer users. That's the result of the security report for the first half of 2007 from Bitdefender.

Trojans have moved to the forefront of all kinds of malicious programs for computers. The list of top 10 has quite a lot of positions occupied by trojan variants. In it, Trojan.Peed.Gen accounts for nearly 30% of all detected threats.

List of top 10 malware in the first half of 2007 includes :

1. Trojan.Peed.Gen 27.19%
2. BehavesLike: Trojan.Downloader 21.4%
3. Win32.Netsky.P@mm 5.62%
4. Trojan.Peed.A 2.37%
5. Win32.NetSky.D@mm 1.87%
6. Win32.Nyxem.E@mm 1.86%
7. Win32.Sality.M 1.85%
8. GenPack: Trojan.Downloader.Tibs.I 1.33%
9. Trojan.Peed.P 1.30%
10. Win32.Netsky.AA@mm 1.22%

Interested readers can refer to the list of security risks updated in real time here.

Tuyet Phan