Report about the most popular viruses from the Kaspersky Lab

7th June 2006

The laboratory of Kaspersky published report about the virus activity in May of this year. This rating is comprised by the specialists of company on the basis of the rating of mail activity, which describes the most frequently meeting in the mail traffic harmful programs, and also the rating of the most popular viruses according to the statistics of the on-line scanner of the laboratory of Kaspersky. The first place among the most popular viruses, which is extended by the mail, retains virus Mytob.c with the index approximately 30 %. other modifications of this virus also burn into the twenty rouble note; therefore of twenty most popular viruses 9 - is the different modifications of Mytob. It followed by the Korean virus LovGate, whose different modifications occupy the second and fourth places. Into the number of most popular viruses enters Scano, special feature of which is the presence of polymorphous javaScript-dropper, in the form of which the worm comes on the electronic mail to its victims. Concerning the most popular harmful programs, caught by on-line scanner, here are separated two Trojan programs, which relate to family Banker - Banker.anv and Banker.ark. Both of them are aimed in order to steal the confidential data about the users of Brazilian banks. This Trojan program is characterized by the enormous number of modifications, whose total quantity already exceeded seven thousand. In the twenty rouble note burn also mail worms, file viruses and advertising programs. For example, it was very popular AdvertMen.a advertising module , which is being installed with some applications and starts to rotate banners in the window of browser. In the twenty rouble note also fell commercial keylogger Ardamax.k. This program is not considered as Trojan, because it was developed by legal company for the development of software. However, the creators of many harmful programs use it as a finished spying module.