Lavasoft Security Bulletin - February 2017: Top Threats
Top 20 Blocked Malware
| Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
| 1 | Exploit.TIFF.Gen.0150 | 5.56% | new |
| 2 | Trojan.HTML.Ramnit.A | 4.36% | +2.35% |
| 3 | Win32.Ramnit.Y | 3.43% | new |
| 4 | Script.SWF.C374 | 3.00% | new |
| 5 | Trojan.LNK.Gen | 2.95% | +1.43% |
| 6 | Trojan.Acad.Bursted.C | 1.39% | new |
| 7 | Win32.Ramnit | 1.37% | +0.56% |
| 8 | Gen:Variant.Kazy.774085 | 1.35% | new |
| 9 | Win32.Ramnit.N | 1.26% | +0.45% |
| 10 | Win32.Sality.3 | 1.19% | -0.57% |
| 11 | Win32.Neshta.A | 1.01% | new |
| 12 | Trojan.Generic.14770870 | 0.99% | new |
| 13 | Gen:Variant.Graftor.148787 | 0.88% | new |
| 14 | Trojan.GenericKD.2457595 | 0.87% | new |
| 15 | Gen:Variant.Graftor.323240 | 0.85% | new |
| 16 | Gen:Variant.Strictor.116354 | 0.79% | new |
| 17 | Trojan.Generic.6338166 | 0.76% | new |
| 18 | Trojan.VB.Chinky.K | 0.76% | new |
| 19 | Win32.Parite.B | 0.71% | new |
| 20 | Win32.Worm.Downadup.Gen | 0.70% | new |
The Top 20 malicious programs blocked on PCs
Malware Prevalence Table February 2017
The table below ranks the most prevalent families seen by Malware Lab's analysis systems in February.
| Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
| 1 | Trojan.Agent.CCPK | 6.95% | +5.45% |
| 2 | Application.Elex.CX | 5.28% | new |
| 3 | Adware.Agent.SSO | 4.29% | new |
| 4 | Gen:Variant.Application.Elex.83 | 3.68% | new |
| 5 | Gen:Variant.Adware.Elex.12 | 3.19% | new |
| 6 | Application.Elex.CT | 2.01% | new |
| 7 | Adware.Agent.SSP | 1.32% | new |
| 8 | Gen:Variant.Miuref.3 | 1.20% | +0.29% |
| 9 | Gen:Variant.Application.Symmi.70546 | 1.14% | new |
| 10 | Win32.Expiro.Gen.4 | 1.13% | new |
| 11 | Gen:Variant.Symmi.70612 | 0.97% | new |
| 12 | Gen:Variant.Application.Mikey.59144 | 0.82% | new |
| 13 | Win32.Virtob.Gen.12 | 0.68% | new |
| 14 | Gen:Variant.Graftor.314905 | 0.57% | -1.85% |
| 15 | Application.Agent.AKM | 0.55% | new |
| 16 | Gen:Variant.Adware.ConvertAd.1268 | 0.54% | new |
| 17 | Adware.Agent.SSJ | 0.54% | new |
| 18 | Trojan.Agent.CCYW | 0.49% | new |
| 19 | Adware.GenericKD.4337496 | 0.43% | new |
| 20 | Trojan.Agent.CDSB | 0.43% | new |
New malicious programs entered the Top 20
Top20 Potentially Unwanted Programs
Below are the Top 20 Potentially Unwanted Programs blocked by Ad-Aware. These are advertising software, browser toolbars, search engines and other programs which change browser start pages and other system settings.
| Position | Ad-Aware detection | % of all threats | Change in ranking |
| 1 | Application.Elex.CY | 2.18% | new |
| 2 | Adware.JS.Mplug.A | 1.98% | new |
| 3 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadAdmin.4 | 1.73% | new |
| 4 | Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.291581 | 1.45% | new |
| 5 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DealPly.89 | 1.29% | -5.59% |
| 6 | Gen:Adware.BrowseFox.1 | 1.21% | -0.69% |
| 7 | Adware.DownloadProtect.B | 1.04% | new |
| 8 | Adware.JS.Crossrider.B | 1.00% | +0.23% |
| 9 | Adware.Linkury.B | 0.89% | +0.22% |
| 10 | Adware.Linkey.B | 0.77% | +0.13% |
| 11 | Gen:Variant.Adware.SearchSuite.3 | 0.73% | new |
| 12 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.DownloadGuide.24 | 0.62% | new |
| 13 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.ExpressDownloader.112 | 0.61% | new |
| 14 | Adware.Linkury.N | 0.60% | -0.03% |
| 15 | Gen:Variant.Application.Elex.22 | 0.59% | new |
| 16 | Application.Spigot.BrowExt.AW | 0.58% | new |
| 17 | Adware.Goopdate.K | 0.58% | new |
| 18 | Gen:Variant.Application.Bundler.104 | 0.57% | new |
| 19 | Adware.NetFilter.E | 0.52% | new |
| 20 | Application.SearchProtect.BS | 0.49% | new |
Top20 PUPs detected on user PCs
Operating Systems
Infections by OS
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