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Top ten e-threats for January 2010
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010, 23:48 IST
Bangalore: BitDefender lab experts have put together a list of the top ten E-threats for the month of January in India. Trojan.Clicker.CM ranks first in January's list, with 8.30 percent of the total amount of infected computers and is mostly found on file sharing websites such as torrent portals, 'warez' communities and other services hosting pirated content.
The Trojan is in fact a small script forcing advertisements in your browser. While some of the advertisements are related to free online games, others may expose the computer user to hardcore pornography or other types of inappropriate content, reports BitDefender lab experts.
With a percentage of 8.17, the second e-threat on January?s Top is Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen, a generic mechanism to spread malware using removable devices such as flash drives, memory cards or external hard-disk drives.
Ranking third in this month's e-threat report, Win32.Worm.Downadup.Gen is responsible for 6.18 percent of the global infections. Exploiting the Microsoft Windows Server Service RPC Handling Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, this worm spreads on other computers in the local network and restricts users' access to Windows Update and security vendors' web pages.
BitDefender's fourth e-threat for January is Exploit.PDF-JS.Gen, with 5.76 percent of the total amount of infections. This generic detection deals with malformed PDF files exploiting different vulnerabilities found in Adobe PDF Reader's Javascript engine in order to execute malicious code on users' computer.
