Despite the arrival of the Mimail worm in the past few days, attacks on the global computer mail box, the ranking of the most deadly viruses this month by security firm Sophos announced yesterday did not show the volatility. tell After a massive wave of MSBlast and Sobig attacks last summer, many experts predict a new virus outbreak. However, this did not happen, at least to the extent that they were evaluated. This month's ranking is still dominated by old names. Top 3 viruses in Sophos 'Top Ten remained in place as of September, with the worm continuing to operate by exploiting Windows security vulnerabilities, taking advantage of users' anxiety. To disguise the notification of software patches attached in the attachment that many customers openly. The only new name in the list this month is CoreFloo.C. Carole Theriault, described by Sophos as "a Trojan program that allows a remote attacker to access and control a victim's computer through Internet Relay Chat (IRC)." This year, a Trojan horse program entered the Top 10, which is still dominated by the W32 family. Also yesterday, Sophos announced the identification of two new Windows worms of the same type, attacked via e-mail. The virus disguises itself as a screensaver with "cool" images of an American pornographic TV show called Sex and the City. The two variants, W32 / Torvil-A and W32 / Torvil-B, use different subject lines, with content that invites customers to view the new content of the channel. Once the user clicks on the attachment, the virus spreads itself to all the contacts the infected machine sends the message to, and also copies itself to newsgroups on the public network. . However, these two viruses are not very dangerous and the speed of spread is not fast. They also do not affect computers running Linux, Mac, OS / 2, and Unix. In the past, the image of many sexy stars in the entertainment industry, sports such as Britney Spears, Shakira, Anna Kournikova, Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Minogue has become the subject of operators. design and spread the virus. List of the 10 most deadly viruses in October (Percentage is the number of messages the victim sent to Sophos): 1. Gibe.F (22.7%) 2. Dumaru.A (13.6%) 3. Mimail.A (12.4%) 4. Sobig.F (9.0%) 5. Klez.H (4.4%) 6. Nachi.A (4.3%) 7. Blaster.A (2.4%) CoreFloo.C (2.1%) 9. Bugbear.B (1.6%) 10. Rox.A (1.0%) Other viruses account for 26.5%
