ESET Identified and Blocked New Malware – Threat Report of October 2013

esetMSIL/Agent.AY, Win32/Virut.NBP and Win32/Bundpil.S are the new threats of October 2013

BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – November 25, 2013

 

ESET, global provider of security solutions for businesses and consumers, identified and blocked new malware which entered into ESET worldwide users. According to the ESET Threat Report of October 2013, MSIL/Agent.AY, Win32/Virut.NBP and Win32/Bundpil.S are the new threats of October 2013

ESET monthly reports also conveys, INF/Autorun,gen is the major threat aggressively penetrating since from many months among worldwide survey of 100 billion computer users. This malware is a generic detection for an “autorun.inf” file created by malware and it can spread through spam, email attachments, malicious websites, unsafe downloads and many other ways.

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