Viruses: Top ranked viruses

virus: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer.


 



Virus Categories:

• File infector viruses: Infect program files
• Boot sector viruses: Infect the system area of a disk
• Master boot record viruses: memory resident viruses that infect disks in the same manner as boot sector viruses
• Multi-partite viruses: infect both boot records and program files
• Macro viruses: infect data files, such as Microsoft Office Suite files with macro script capabilities.

The new viruses are harder to eliminate. The cost of cleaning up after a virus infection has risen. According to a latest virus prevalence survey, the average cost to companies was $81,000 with $69,000 in the last survey.

Top 10 viruses in the past 5 years:

Top viruses of 2009:

1. Netsky.q
2. Nyzem.e
3. bagle.gt
4. Netsky.aa
5. Scano.gen
6. Diehard.dg
7. small.bdj
8. Mytob.q 
9. Mydoom.1
10. Warezov.yi 

Top viruses of 2008:

1. Windx-Maxtrox
2. Autoit variants
3. Malingsi
4. Recycler variants
5. Fdshield
6. Purwo variant
7. Formalin
8. Raider.vbs variant
9. Autorunme variant
10. Rieysha variant

Top viruses of 2007:

1. Detnat
2. Netsky
3. Mytob
4. Bagle
5. MyWife
6. Virut
7. Zafi
8. MyDoom
9. Lovegate
10. Bagz

Top viruses of 2006:

1. Eliles.A worm
2. Nuwar.A wins
3. Spanta worms
4. BarcPhish.HTML
5. WebMic.A
6. Nedro.B
7. FormShared.A
8. DarkFloppy.A
9. Gatt.A.
10. Todd Shriber

Top viruses of 2005:

1. Zafi-D           
2. Netsky-P         
3. Zafi-B           
4. Netsky-D          
5. Netsky-Z         
6. Netsky-B         
7. N4ytob-Z         
8. MyDoom-O         
9. Netsky-C         
10. Netsky-Q 

Top viruses of 2004:

1. netsky
2. objectdata
3. sober
4. mime
5. bagle
6. lovgate
7. klez
8. dumaru
9. mydoom
10. mhtredir

Now, how can the viruses be eliminated?  By the antivirus software’s.

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