Lists & Rankings: Top ten malware threats and hoaxes reported to Sophos in August 2006

Just one in 278 (0.4 percent) emails are now viral infected, a significant decrease to August 2005 when one in every 50 emails circulating were viral. However, Sophos identified 1,998 new threats in August, bringing the total number of malware protected against to 186,665. The majority of the new threats (71.8 percent) were Trojan horses, which, in most cases, are specifically targeted at particular groups of people and do not spread on their own.

Source: Sophos

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