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Rubrik: World-wide News/Products & News Central
Command: Worm/Sobig.F Dominates The Chart August
2003 - Worse Virus Month in History (12.09.03)
- Central Command, a leading provider of PC anti-virus software and computer
security services released its monthly listing of the top twelve viruses
reported for August, 2003. The report, coined the "Dirty Dozen", is
based on the number of virus occurrences confirmed through Central Command's
Emergency Virus Response Team.
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The table
below represents the most prevalent viruses for August 2003, number one being
the most frequent. Ranking Virus Name Percentage 1. Worm/Sobig.F 76.8
% 2. Worm/Lovsan.A (Blaster) 6.4 % 3. Worm/MiMail.A 5.1 % 4. Worm/Nachi.A 4.0 % 5. Worm/Klez.E (including G) 2.1 % 6. Worm/Dumaru.A 2.0 % 7. Worm/Sobig.A 0.9 % 8. Worm/BugBear.B 0.7 % 9. W32/Sircam.A 0.6 % 10. Worm/Yaha.E 0.5 % 11. Worm/Sobig.C 0.4 % 12.
Worm/Sobig.E 0.2 % Others 0.3 % "The
month of August turned into a plague of Internet worms affecting computer
users worldwide. Multiple aggressive Internet worms, made it the worst month
in history for the number of infections reported, impacted organizations and
lost productivity," said Steven Sundermeier, Vice President of Products
and Services at Central Command, Inc. According to Central Command's Emergency Virus Response Team, the top
nuisance, Worm/Sobig.F accounted for over 76% of the total confirmed virus
infections. "The extremely aggressive spreading nature of Sobig.F
created significant volumes of email traffic causing email networks around
the world to collapse. At its
peak, Sobig.F related emails accounted for nearly 73% of all email."
Global virus epidemics for August included Worm/MiMail.A, Worm/Lovsan.A
(Blaster) + variants, Worm/Nachi.A, Worm/Dumaru.A and Worm/Sobig.F. (ma) Central
Command Inc. Contact:
Steven Sundermeier, Product Manager Tel.
(001-330) 723-2062 x204, Fax (001-330) 722-6517 E-Mail:
ssundermeier@centralcommand.com |
