The Virus Bulletin prevalence table

December 2011

Virus Name Prevalence Percentage
Autorun 7.26 %
Encrypted/Obfuscated 6.09 %
Iframe-Exploit 5.65 %
LNK-Exploit 5.30 %
Heuristic/generic 5.18 %

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Background

The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics.

Reports are included only if they are confirmed, and hence, in conjunction with the WildList, the prevalence table provides a useful indication of the relative prevalence of various virus found in the wild at the time.

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