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Kaspersky Lab’s December 2007 ranking named Trojan.Win32.Qhost.sx the most “greedy” banking malware, targeting users of 42 banks. Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.bdn targeted customers of three electronic-money systems, while Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banbra.vf attacked three electronic key-card systems.
Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.rc was described as the best-hidden threat because it was compressed by eleven different programs. The smallest, 12-byte Trojan.BAT.KillFiles.gm, deletes drive C; the largest, 85 MB Backdoor.Win32.Bifrose.adr, was nevertheless smaller than winners in earlier months. Backdoor.Win32.Hupigon.vqe deleted installed security-solution files and registry entries.
Email-Worm.Win32.Netsky.q again led email-traffic prevalence with 20.03 percent in December. Backdoor.Win32.Rbot appeared in 673 modifications, while Email-Worm.Win32.Zhelatin again led virus-and-worm families, nearly doubling to 69 members in two months.
