December virus trends.(tracked by Trend Micro's global virus laboratories)

Information Systems Auditor, December, 2003

The top 10 viruses worldwide for the 30 days up to 6 January 2004, as tracked by Trend Micro's global virus laboratories, were:

* Worm Lovegate.G (568 822 incidents);

* PE Valla.A (329 175);

* PE Elkern.D (138 697);

* Worm Sobig.F (119 958);

* PE Funlove 4099 (88 733);

* Worm Nachi.A (49 037);

* Worm Klez.H (48 364);

* Worm Swen.A (42 714);

* PE Partite.A (30 342);

* Troj Ntserv.A (29 253).

Head of TrendLabs EMEA David Kopp says that in December 2003 Trend Micro detected around 400 new malicious codes (computer worms, viruses, Trojans and other malware): 30% of these malicious codes are worm-related and 30% are Trojan-related.

The new codes detected by Trend...

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