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Our March 2009 Threat Landscape Report is now available, recapping a month of threat activity from exploits and malware, to spam. Here are some key movements from the report along with comments: After a year long battle, W32/Virut.A finally lands in top spot – surpassing Netsky. This parasitic file infector proves to be quite virulent, [...]

Back in 2004, several mass mailing worms spread in unprecedented fashion: MyDoom, Bagle, and Netsky. Netsky had instructions to remove MyDoom and Bagle, leaving this message in one of its variants: “We are the skynet–you can’t hide yourself—we kill malware…MyDoom.f is a thief of our idea!”. This turf war was not the only one to [...]