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Viruses
Tuesday 4th December, 2007 06:32 Comments: 0
According to Sophos, 41.4% of reports come from two viruses: W32/Traxg and W32/Netsky. The sad thing is that they've both been around since July 2004 and March 2004 respectively. But it's not just a lack of AV software (presumably combined with Admin credentials), first position is taken by Troj/Pushdo. Its ongoing success is down to the guilty cybercriminal's ability to quickly create different variants, which are being spread voraciously in a range of spam messages. Each new piece of spam that harbours the trojan has been created to tempt users, usually enticing people (presumably aimed at men) to watch videos of Britney or view naked pictures of Angelina. Their tactics are working.

Mind you, it is possible to run a computer without AV software. But that's a whole other story.
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