W32/Zafi-D Number 1 Virus
p2pnet.net News:- There’s now a 50% chance of an unprotected, unpatched Windows PC being infected by a virus within 12 minutes of going online.
So says UK security firm Sophos.
For the first six months of 2005, the top ten viruses as recorded by Sophos, with the most frequently occurring virus at number one, were:
| Position | Virus | % of reports |
|
1 |
W32/Zafi-D
|
25.3% |
| 2 | W32/Netsky-P | 17.5% |
| 3 | W32/Sober-N | 10.3% |
| 4 | W32/Zafi-B | 4.7% |
| 5 | W32/Netsky-D | 3.8% |
| 6 | W32/Mytob-BE | 2.6% |
| 7 | W32/Netsky-Z | 2.3% |
| 8 | W32/Mytob-AS | 2.0% |
| 9 | W32/Netsky-B | 1.9% |
| 10 | W32/Sober-K | 1.7% |
| Others | ========== | 27.9% |
"In May, Israeli police managed to track down a London based couple, who were arrested for writing malicious software that was used by Israeli companies to spy on their competitors," says Sophos. "The previous month saw the arrest of a Cypriot man who spied on a 17-year old girl via her webcam after infecting her PC with a Trojan horse. A similar scenario resulted in a Spanish student being fined."
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See:-
Sophos – Virus writing on the up as average time to infection spirals down, July 1, 2005
July 1st, 2005 at 3:45 pm
*hugs Firefox and a Linux router*
July 1st, 2005 at 3:45 pm
A better indicator of survival time can be found at
http://isc.sans.org/survivalhistory.php
July 1st, 2005 at 7:17 pm
It’s more like a 100% chance of infection within about 5 minutes unprotected online activity these days. Especially in areas with decent broadband access and thick pc users who dont see the point in anti-virus software. Like where I live :’(
July 1st, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Things like this are the very reason I am writing this on a linux box. It isn’t that I know linux well (yet), as I just began to use linux last week. I for one am tired of the spyware, the virii, the trojans, and the hackers looking to get in your box everytime you get on the net.
The cost of prevention is an added cost to computing and surfing the net. It is not a cheap prevention either, with every corporation wanting their pound of flesh, not once for the product but also with renewals. You never quit paying as long as you run windoze or you wind up wishing you had. I have for the last time cleaned my home network of worms and trojans.
What was nice was to receive a 404 error message of a hidden tool bar trying to install and could not find anywhere to install. I now have a router, a linux firewall, and a linux box with others to follow as I figure it out.
Let Billy and the Boyz suck it up on another lost customer.
July 2nd, 2005 at 12:09 pm
Or, as [the] BSA/SPA/ad-nauseum would say, another “lost sale”.