Top 10 malware threats for January
February 19, 2010 Computer Safety Tip
The popular Sunbelt Software has finally announced the top ten malware threats of last year.Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT 
- remained in the very top position for the third month in a row. This is a detection which includes many malicious downloader’s associated with both rogues and shareware.
Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen which is a password stealing Trojan got second place also for the third month in a row.
Some of the other top parasites which made the top ten list include but are not limited to the following:Virtumonde,Packed.Win32.TDSS.aa.3,Trojan.HTML.FakeAlert.a as well as a couple of others.
It has been suggested by the majority of computer experts that users make use of a decent and reliable antispyware application that it up to date which is able to both detect as well as automatically remove these malicious top ten threats.
The top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of January are:
- Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT – 23.15%
- Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen – 4.91%
- Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen – 4.55%
- Trojan.Win32.Generic!SB.0 – 2.40%
- Trojan.Win32.Malware – 1.93%
- Trojan.ASF.Wimad – 1.92%
- INF.Autorun – 1.46%
- Virtumonde – 1.23%
- Packed.Win32.TDSS.aa.3 – 1.21%
- Trojan.HTML.FakeAlert.a – 0.98%
