NetSky.b spreads to become 10th worst malware of all
time
London, UK - 24 February 2004, 15:30 GMT - mi2g Intelligence
Unit data shows that the number of NetSky.b infections is rising fast since
last week particularly across the UK, Netherlands, Germany, USA and Japan.
Over 190 countries have now been affected. As a result, the total economic
damage from the NetSky malware family, which infects computers running Windows
only, has now reached 10th rank in "The Top 20" table of most damaging
malware of all time maintained by mi2g since 1995.
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