Central Command on Thursday released its so-called Dirty Dozen list of top twelve viruses for December, 2003.Central Command Inc. on Thursday released its so-called Dirty Dozen list of top twelve viruses for December, 2003. The report is based on virus incidents confirmed through the Medina, Ohio-based company's Emergency Virus Response Team.
According to the company, the Gibe.C worm, with its HTML e-mail message that impersonated a Microsoft Web site, retained the top spot for December, a position that Klez.E held five times during the year.
Here is Central Command's December Dirty Dozen ranking with the percentage of occurrences:
- Gibe.C21.4 percent
- Klez.E14.7 percent
- MiMail.I12.8 percent
- MiMail.J5.9 percent
- BugBear.B5.2 percent
- MiMail.K5.1 percent
- MiMail.A3.7 percent
- Sober.C1.9 percent
- Nachi1.6 percent
- MiMail.C1.6 percent
- Hawawi.G1.2 percent
- Dumaru.A1.1 percent
- Others23.8 percent