Security company Sophos has announced the rankings of the 10 most dangerous viruses in February 2005. Zafi-D is at the top of the charts, accounting for 30.8%. At the same time, two new virus variants have entered the top 10: Bagle-BK and Sober-K.
Sophos also analyzed in February that a total of 1,295 new variants of the virus were detected, bringing the total number of virus variants to 100,898. The level of email infected with the virus in February was 3.54%, which means that one in every 28 emails has an email virus. While in January this level is higher, 23 emails have an email virus.
Zafi.D is a worm that is capable of spreading mass e-mails, it hides in a zip file attached to an email titled & quot; Merry Christmas & quot ;. This "Christmas gift" is also often titled "Happy Hollydays". and the sender is "Jaime".
Like most worms that are capable of spreading e-mail, Zafi.D will change the configuration settings of Windows-based computers, which can disable security software and collect E-mail addresses in infected computers. After collecting the e-mail addresses on the computer, Zafi.D will use a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) to send copies of itself to the collected e-mail addresses.
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