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Sunbelt Software Announces Top Ten Spyware/Malware Threats for December
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GW_Staff on 07 January, 2009 09:26:00
 
Clearwater, FL (Gawkwire.com) Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows
security and management software, today announced the top ten most prevalent
spyware and malware threats for the month of December 2008. The report, compiled
from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's award-winning antispyware tool,
CounterSpy(tm), and its new anti-malware solution, VIPRE(tm) Antivirus +
Antispyware, is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs.
The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware
infection was detected during CounterSpy and VIPRE scans that report back to
Sunbelt's community of opt-in users.
The top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of December are:
1.   Virtumonde   4.40%
2.   Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec    4.12%
3.   Explorer32.Hijacker   2.27%
4.   Rootkit.TDss.Gen   1.82%
5.   Trojan-Downloader.Generic   1.70%
6.   Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen   1.46%
7.   Trojan.FakeAlert    1.40%
8.   Trojan.Win32.Monder.gen   1.38%
9.   INF.Autorun (v)   1.03%
10.   Trojan.DNSChanger.Gen   0.91%