Top 20 malware programs. Conficker is on the 1st place

Posted: May 4th, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Malware, Virus |

According to the report published today by Kaspersky Lab,it has been detected over 45 190 of unique harmful, advertising and potentially dangerous programs during last month. This digit practically does not differ from a metrics for March.

In a rating of twenty most widespread harmful programs worm Conficker known also as Downadup and Kido continues to the the leading position. By some estimations, Conficker could infect up to 20 million computers worldwide. The last days this worm has started to form the infected computers in a botnet for distribution of spam emails and spyware.

The second string of “charts”, as well as one month ago, holds the virus Sality with spyware functionality. This harmful program intercepts the information entered by means of the keyboard, and sends gathered information to malefactors.

It is remarkable that the harmful code CodeBaseExec which first versions have been detected in 2004 has returned to April virus “twenty”. The program gets on the PC of a victim through old “hole” in a browser of Internet Explorer of versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0.

The complete rating of harmful programs for April under the version «Kaspersky’s Laboratory» looks like this:

1. Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ih
2. Virus.Win32.Sality.aa
3. Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Flystud.ko
4. Trojan.Win32.Chifrax.a
5. Trojan.Win32.Autoit.ci
6. Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.eql
7. Packed.Win32.Krap.b
8. Worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui
9. Exploit.HTML.CodeBaseExec
10. Packed.Win32.Black.a
11. Virus.Win32.Sality.z
12. Virus.Win32.Virut.ce
13. Trojan.JS.Agent.xy
14. Worm.Win32.Mabezat.b
15. Virus.Win32.Alman.b
16. Packed.Win32.Krap.g
17. Packed.Win32.Klone.bj
18. Worm.Win32.AutoIt.ar
19. Exploit.JS.Agent.agc
20. Email-Worm.Win32.Brontok.q