Something interesting for computer admins.

Straight_Man

This link is an interesting one. Kaspersky labs is publishing a top 20 virus list, and including impact trends. This is a link that, if the info is looked at as trending, shows that Sober and the mimail virus family are havign an increasing, not a decreasing, impact relative to other viruses. In mimail's case, this is due to the fact that the mimail.a source code was published deliberately on the web. Result is now 9 known mimail variants adn a suspicion that there are more likely to be more rather than a decrease in progess upwards in the number of variants. Overall, it is likely to hit harder aggregetely than many other viruses (this last is imho, but look at what mimail.c and mimail.g are doing in relation to even Sober, and the total percentage of hits of all the mimail viruses versus the other single virus variant families in the top 20). Note this perspecitve reflects customers worldwide, with more reports coming from: Japan and the far east triangle, Eastern Europe, and the western Europe countries to alesser extent than North America, but is one early warning indicator of what might well come as the Internet becomes more and more a WAN of WANs and increasingly cross-connected.

http://www.kaspersky.com/news.html?id=2481438