September Threats: PDF Trojan Appears on Mac OS X; Removable Media Malware Leads the Stats

For the month of September, INF/Autorun yet again proved its notorious position as malware frontrunner with a 6.49% infection rate globally and 5.42% infection rate in Europe. Second was Win32/Conficker with a 3.65% infection share worldwide, making it also the number three malware with 3.40% in Europe. Statistics are based on ESET Live Grid data, cloud-based reputation technology that utilizes malware related data from users of ESET solutions worldwide. Cloud-based reputation is yet another method used by the fifth generation of ESET products to improve the detection power. The result is enhanced precision in detecting threats and fasters scanning.