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New Virus Alerts September 2007

Our VIRUS Alert Post

Here you will find recent virus & malware alerts...

Descriptions for Newly Discovered Threats (Includes Viruses, Trojans and Hoaxes)

Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in September 2007

Position

Last
month

Malware

Percentage of reports

W32/Netsky

29.90%

Troj/Pushdo

27.4%

W32/Mytob

9.2%

W32/Zafi

8.3%

Re-entry

Mal/IFrame

6.0%

Re-entry

Mal/Behav

4.6%

W32/MyDoom

4.1%

New

Mal/Basine

2.5%

W32/Bagle

1.4%

W32/Traxg

1.2%

Others

5.4%

This section helps you to understand how it behaves

Mal/Behav-112 is a malware family for the Windows platform. Members of Mal/Behav-112 are typically worms with backdoor functionality, but the family may also include Trojan components.

Detection for members of Mal/Behav-112 is behavior based. It is extremely important that customers report detections of Mal/Behav-112 to Sophos and send a sample for analysis. Mal/Behav-112 is a malicious program for the Windows platform.

Recently added hoaxes
25 Sep 2007	Evan Trembley
23 Aug 2007	Life in the 1500s
20 Aug 2007	Bum_tnoo7 Facebook hacker
10 Aug 2007	To Kill an American
3 Aug 2007	Nigerian Global Warming
20 Jul 2007	Heart attacks and warm water
18 Jul 2007	Breakfast at McDonald's
10 Jul 2007	Assassin contract scam
3 Jul 2007	Popeye's Mom
18 Jun 2007	Angels exist

Most prevalent hoaxes
1	Olympic torch
2	Hotmail hoax
3	A virtual card for you
4	A Vida é Bela
5	Parcel Delivery Service scam
6	Dear YAHOO User
7	Budweiser frogs screensaver
8	Welcome to the Matrix
9	It Takes Guts
10	JDBGMGR

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