Trojans accounted for three-quarters (76 per cent) of all malware in July, according to a new computer security report.

The study showed there were 20,704 advertising, malicious and unwanted programmes detected on the nation's PCs during that month.

Most of these were Trojans, with viruses accounting for four per cent, adware 16 per cent, and other malware another four per cent.

The company published the findings as part of the first monthly statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network.

David Emm, a consultant at Kaspersky Lab, said Trojan variants such as Trojan.Win32.DNSChanger.ech and Trojan-Downloader.WMA.Wimad.n "continue to dominate the threat landscape".

Home broadband users are urged to make sure their security is sufficient and that they have the latest patches and updates installed.

Last week, Kaspersky Lab revealed that it had discovered two new worm variants attacking Facebook and MySpace users.



Friday, 8th August 2008

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