Trojans Total Half of BitDefender’s Top Ten E-Threats for June

Conficker’s domination is dwindling, while Trojan.Clicker.CM heads the pack by bypassing popup blockers

BitDefender released the top ten e-threats for the month of June, and Trojans continue to dominate the list. Five of the ten worst e-threats are Trojans, making this the best represented e-threat category.

In tenth position is a generic detection for e-threats packed with NSAnti, a very popular program used by virus writers to obfuscate the contents of their infected files and reduce their size in transit.

Ninth position is held by NaviPromo, an old adware downloader that found a new lease of life. NaviPromo is the "dark half" of the infamous Navi toolbar.

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