There are many kinds of malicious programs spread out over the internet. BitDefender, one the the biggest computer security vendors has announced ten dangerous programs. These programs are considered as the most annoyed programs in internet. BitDefender said that these programs are hard to be recognized and get destroyed. Based on Softpedia, here are the following ten security threats which are the most common in July 2008 with the percentage.
1. Trojan.Clicker.CM - 6.63%
2. Trojan.Downloader.WMA.Wimad.N - 4.49%
3. Trojan.Downloader.Wimad.A - 2.91%
4. Trojan.Qhost.AKR - 2.57%
5. Exploit.SWF.Gen - 2.39%
6. Trojan.Swizzor.1 - 2.02%
7. Trojan.HTML.Zlob.W - 1.92%
8. Trojan.HTML.Zlob.AA1 - 73%
9. Trojan.Autorun.TE - 1.72%
10. Trojan.FakeAlert.PP - 1.65%
The others - 71.97%.
From those threats, there are nine programs which can be integrated to the softwares which is likely safe from the outside. But once installed, those trojans could cause damages include the possibility of cyber crime get access to our computer. For example, Trojan.Clicker.CM which has the first rank shows some commercial pop ups which take more bandwidth and it will slow down computer performance.
BitDefender said that most of the threats aren’t new kinds except Trojan.Downloader.Wimad.A dan Trojan.Swizzor.1. According to Sorin Dudea, Head of BitDefender AVResearch, those threats will not cause big effect to the computer. But, those programs are hard to be recognized and also to be destroyed. So just be careful with these programs.
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