Top Viruses, Worms and Malware in 2006

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 22, 2006 @11:22PM from the and-the-losers-are dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HNS is running an article with a list of those malicious codes which, although they may not have caused serious epidemics, stood out in one way or another. Some of the categories are: the biggest snooper, the most moralistic, the worst job applicant and the most tenacious. From the article: 'The most competitive. Once the Popuper spyware has installed itself on a computer, it runs a pirate version of a well-known antivirus application. Far from trying to do the user a favour, it is actually trying to eliminate any possible rival from the computer. It seems that the fight for supremacy has also reached the world of Internet threats.'"

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A bit of bias from the press? by Amiga+Lover · 2006-12-22 23:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

I notice there's no mention of ANY of the Apple viruses/worms or malware out there. You only have to search back through the last year of security news to see the exploits taken advantage of in OSX to see a few examples of this, yet there's still no "FIRST VIRUS ON MACS" headline in the mainstream press.

Especially the one released on a popular mac rumors forum earlier this year that hit a few people hard.