Sophos has published its report on 10 viruses and hoaxes more 'spread that affected businesses around the world during the month of May 2006. The ranking, based on data gathered by Sophos's global network of monitoring stations Sophos shows that Netsky-P, first spotted in March 2004, remains the most malicious program 'popular among those that spread via email. The Mytob family of worms and 'responsible for numerous infections, with five variants appearing in the standings. In May, Sophos identified 1,538 new threats, so the number of malicious programs from which 'can now to protect and 'rose to 122,634. Most of the new threats (85.1 percent) and 'were Trojan horses, while just 12.3 per cent and' were worms or viruses. The graphs of the top ten viruses is available at www.sophos.com / pressoffice / imggallery / Topten . For more information on computer security, including practices against false alarms: www.sophos.com / virusinfo / BestPractice .
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