Alexander Gostev, Senior Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab noticed that a strange thing happened in June: The program that took first place on the Online Scanner Top 20 as the most widespread malicious program is, in fact, not a malicious program at all.

In addition, June's online scanner top ten features six new malicious programs, half of which are new versions of Trojan downloaders. That means that they will be installing new, updated modifications of all sorts of malware on infected computers.

And on the email front, after a long hiatus first place was again taken by the all-time leader of 2004 and 2005: the NetSky.q worm. Right on its heels is a worm from an equally old family, Bagle.gt. The reports are now available on <A HREF="http://www.viruslist.com/">Kaspersky's Viruslist site.</A>