Kaspersky Labs presents the top twenty most widely spread viruses for the
month of October.
Name, Percentage by
Occurrence
- I-Worm.Swen 70.94%
- I-Worm.Tanatos 1.13%
- I-Worm.Mimail
1.07%
- Worm.Win32.Lovesan 0.89%
- Backdoor.SdBot 0.70%
- I-Worm.Sober
0.63%
- Worm.P2P.SpyBot 0.59%
- I-Worm.Sobig 0.52%
- Backdoor.Ciadoor
0.47%
- VBS.Redlof 0.39%
- TrojanDropper.Win32.Small 0.38%
- Backdoor.Agobot
0.30%
- Win95.CIH 0.29%
- Backdoor.Optix.Pro 0.28%
- TrojanProxy.Win32.Hino
0.23%
- Backdoor.IRCBot 0.23%
- Win32.Parite
0.22%
- Keylogger.Win32.PerfectKeyLogger 0.21%
- Macro.Word97.Flop
0.18%
- Trojan.Win32.StartPage 0.18%
- * Other malicious programs 20.17%
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