Top ten viruses reported in July 2005
Anti-virus firm Sophos has revealed the top ten viruses causing problems for businesses around the world during the month of July 2005. The report, compiled from Sophos' global network of monitoring stations reveals that Netsky-P, the worm written by the recently convicted German teenager, Sven Jaschan, tops the charts this month. However, it is the variants of the Mytob worm that are dominating the polls - accounting for seven of the top ten positions and over 37% of all viruses reported to Sophos in July.
The top ten viruses in July were as follows:
1 W32/Netsky-P 13.9%
2 W32/Mytob-AS 11.6%
3 W32/Mytob-BE 9.3%
4 W32/Mytob-EP 5.5%
5 W32/Zafi-D 3.5%
6 W32/Mytob-CX 3.2%
7 W32/Netsky-D 3.1%
8 W32/Mytob-CJ 2.6%
9 W32/Mytob-CN 2.6%
10 W32/Mytob-AT 2.3%
Others 42.4%
