Eset’s harmful programs statistics
The Eset company – the makers of a popular antivirus software, released it’s statistics of top internet-threats that were discovered by Eset specialist crew using the “early locate” technology – ThreatSense.Net in October 2009. The first place for the number of world infections was given to an internet worm Conficker, the total amount of computers infected was 8,85%. The second place went to the programs that were using Autorun.inf for infecting purposes, the percentage of infected computers was 7,73%. Another massive threat was Win32/Kryptik, which includes a whole line of fake software products, even fake antivirus.