Top 10 spyware/malware threats

Sunbelt Software, provider of Windows security and management software has announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of November.

The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's antispyware tool, CounterSpy, and its new anti-malware solution, VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware.

The results represent the number of times a particular spyware or malware infection was detected during CounterSpy and VIPRE scans that report back to Sunbelt's community of opt-in users.

The top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of November are:

1. Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec 4.27 percent
2. Trojan-Downloader.braviax 2.89 percent
3. Virtumonde 1.88 percent
4. Explorer32.Hijacker 1.62 percent
5. Trojan.FakeAlert 1.42 percent
6. Rootkit.TDss.Gen 1.25 percent
7. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 1.15 percent
8. Antivirus 2009 1.08 percent
9. INF.Autorun (v) 1.07 percent
10. Trojan-Downloader.Generic 1.04 percent