The Top Ten viruses during July were:
- W32/Klez.H-mm – 502456
- W32/Klez.E-mm – 216995
- W32/SirCam.A-mm – 20740
- VBS/VBSW.AQ-mm – 10359
- W32/Magistr.B-mm – 8486
- W32/Hybris.B-mm – 4979
- W32/Magistr.A-mm – 4781
- W32/Fretham.F-mm – 4020
- W32/Yaha.A-mm – 2621
- W32/BadTrans.B-mm – 2432
Commentary: July 2002
Since last summer there has been one virus that has managed to stick around no matter what. SirCam, which emerged almost a year ago last July, quickly made it to Number One in the all-time virus charts, spreading at a sustained rate that had never been seen before – making LoveBug look like a flash in the pan.
Continuing in this vein, SirCam has remained the Number One virus ever since. Until this July, that is. Klez.H quickly asserted itself as the new pain for IT security managers, and on Sunday 26 May took the Number One spot from SirCam. MessageLabs has now clocked well over one million copies of this virus.
Could this development signify a new trend in viruses? 2002 certainly seems to have been dominated by 'slow burners' rather than the 'quick- and-dirty' variety of virus (eg Goner) that we saw in spades last year. Hardly surprising, then, that Klez.H should be top of the July chart, with yet another of its fellow variants not all that far behind.
Other new faces this month include VBS/VBSW.AQ-mm, a variant of the Anna Kournikova virus, this time focusing attention on the Columbian pop star Shakira, and W32/Fretham.F-mm – a mass-mailing virus which continues the trend of writers releasing multiple variants in the hope that one will stick.
This one has – at least for a while, anyway.
Source
SMT
Postscript
This section of Secure IT is supplied by MessageLabs. MessageLabs scans e-mail traffic at the Internet level, such that the company is able to compile the most accurate virus statistics available.
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