. The INF/Autorun worm continued during September in the first place among the most detected malicious codes for the second consecutive month, with 6.62% of detections, as revealed by the computer security company ESET, which confirms the trend of distributing these codes through removable devices.Sebastián Bortnik, coordinator of Awareness & Research at ESET Latin America, explained that INF/Autorun does not constitute a threat in itself, since these are plain text files with instructions to perform an action automatically in Windows, but "they are frequently exploited by malware creators for malicious purposes. As a result, simply inserting a removable drive into the computer can infect the system."
In second place remains Win32/Conficker with 4.52% of detections, followed by Win32/PSW. OnlineGames, which is one of the threats with the greatest consecutive validity among the top positions of the world ranking of malware spread.
Also during this month it was alerted to an email that falsely announced possible earthquakes in Ecuador and offered a link to download supposed reports of the epicenter, but in reality downloaded a malicious code detected as Win32/AutoRun.IRCBot.FC worm.
