A rivalry between the creators of the Netsky and Bagle viruses helped cause a dramatic increase in threats in the first half of the year, but the most serious was Download.Ject, a Trojan horse program that exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, according to McAfee.
McAfee’s Anti-virus and Vulnerability Emergency Response Team (AVERT) ranks Exploit-MhtRedir.gen, also known as Download.Ject or Scob, as the top threat because it was used in a high number of attacks against both corporations and consumers. It also took advantage of the widely-used IE browser, and was a new type of threat, says Vincent Gullotto, AVERT vice president.
Here are McAfee’s top ten threats of the year so far:
Exploit-MhtRedir.gen (also known as Download.Ject or Scob)
VBS/Psyme
Adware-Gator
Adware-180Solutions
Adware-Cydoor
Adware-BetterInet
W32/Netsky.d@MM
W32/Netsky.p@MM
W32/Netsky.q@MM
W32/Mydoom.a@MM
I’m glad they recognized adware/spyware as a threat. -KF
Source: PC World
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