Computer Viruses In Hungary In February

  • 18 Mar 2010 11:10 AM
Computer Viruses In Hungary In February
"VirusBuster's data show that the second month of the year was dominated by two malicious programs, which have been known for a long time by security experts.

The Hungary-based specialist of IT security continuously monitors virus occurrence and activity. Data from VirusBuster's mail protection systems -- in-house and externally deployed alike -- is collected and processed. VirusBuster uses the results to generate monthly statistics of the most frequent infections. These monthly virus toplists are published on the company's website as well.

"Surprisingly, the February toplist was led by two malicious programs, which were first detected a long time ago. Backdoor.IRCBot.AAWX in itself was responsible for nearly two thirds of all registered infections, while the share of Backdoor.Bandok.GT was over 5%. Both belong to the family of botnet malware, the dominant category on the toplist. Another category worth highlighting in February was that of trojans distributing rogue antivirus programs, represented by Trojan.DR.Fregee.BD and Trojan.FraudPack.YEC", commented the data Gábor Szappanos, the head of VirusBuster's virus lab.

Trojans, mentioned above, are malicious programs, which got their name from the legendary wooden horse built by the Greeks to defeat Troy: They pretend to serve users, but in fact they are designed to cheat their victims. Botnets are networks of unknowing victim PCs (called zombies), which are controlled by hackers. Users should take steps to get rid of botnet malware, since otherwise they may become accomplices in the cybercriminals' activities, warns Gábor Szappanos.


VirusBuster's malware toplist for February 2010:

Malware Share (%)
Backdoor.IRCBot.AAWX 65.42%
Backdoor.Bandok.GT 5.46%
Trojan.Oficla.XM 4.85%
Trojan.DR.Fregee.BD 3.63%
Trojan.FraudPack.YEC 3.37%
JS.Chir.B 2.38%
Trojan.Buzus.AWEC 1.28%
Worm.Rbot.MCG 1.02%
Worm.SdBot.GAP 0.99%
Trojan.Buzus.AZVU 0.67%
Other: 10.93%

Source:  VirusBuster Ltd.

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