Virus Top Twenty for June 2007
Probably the most noteworthy event this month was the disappearance of May’s rabble-rouser, Sober.aa.
Probably the most noteworthy event this month was the disappearance of May’s rabble-rouser, Sober.aa.
June’s top ten features six new malicious programs, half of which are new versions of Trojan downloaders.
Computer viruses have been around almost as long as there have been computers. But these days, writing malware is no longer exclusively the domain of a few socially maladjusted computer nerds. What was once primarily an intellectual exercise is now seriously big business.
First and foremost this includes various means of modifying and packing code, in order to conceal the presence of malicious code in the system and to disrupt the functionality of antivirus solutions.