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Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in November 2005

Position Last
month		 Malware Percentage of reports
1 New W32/Sober-Z
   42.9%
2 1 W32/Netsky-P
   8.1%
3 2 W32/Mytob-GH
   6.8%
4 3 W32/Mytob-EX
   4.5%
5 6 W32/Zafi-D
   4.0%
6 5 W32/Mytob-BE
   2.3%
7 9 W32/Zafi-B
   2.1%
8 4 W32/Mytob-AS
   1.6%
9 7 W32/Netsky-D
   1.2%
10 8 W32/Mytob-C
   1.1%
Others 25.4%

 

W32/Mytob-GH is a mass-mailing worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.

Messages sent by the worm will have the following characteristics:

Subject: chosen randomly from a list including

Notice of account limitation
Email Account Suspension
Security measures
Members Support
Important Notification

Attachment name: chosen randomly from a list including

readme.zip
document.zip
account-info.zip
email-details.zip
account-details.zip

The worm forges the sender's address, using the same domain name as the recipient.
 
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