McAfee Names Worst Viruses

KingFishKingFish
edited January 2006 in Science & Tech
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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  • Carol Land
    edited January 2006
    how do I register...... my email is artsiecl@yahoo.com I want to know about the About-Blank ---- it is real mean too..... and I want to know about the new one about "Avirtual card sent to you" ........ this was on cnn news.......??????? tell me what to do????
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    Hi Carol. There is a "Register" link near the top left corner of the main forum page. You can then check out our Spyware/Virus/Trojan forum, which has a number of informational "sticky" threads that you should check out.

    When you register, you'll also get a message from me greeting you. Just reply to that if you need any help getting started.
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