The most prevalent piece of spyware infecting PCs during August was Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec, according to the security software company Sunbelt.
Sunbelt has released a list of the top ten most common pieces of spyware during August, with Trojan.FakeAlert and ClickSpring. PuritySCAN coming in second and third respectively. The company came up with the results based on the number of instances that its product, CounterSpy, detected the threats.
Virtumonde and Trojan.Unclassified.Gen came in fourth and fifth of the most common pieces of spyware. Sunbelt's CounterSpy features antimalware technology, boot-level scanning and kernel-level Active Protection. It also has real-time protection and advanced malware detection capabilities. CounterSpy can call on a database of the most common malware threats on the internet in order to better combat them.
Meanwhile, security firm Trend Micro has released its 2008 line of internet security products, including PC tuning, antispyware and antivirus capabilities and Wi-Fi hotspot verification.
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