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Klez-H hangs around like a bad smell |
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Klez, yet again, was the mostly reported viral menace on the Internet this month.
Managed services firm Messagelabs has blocked Klez-H 387,026 times this month. The virus accounted for 15.3 per cent of support calls to AV firm Sophos.
March marks the fourteenth month on the trot that Klez-H has appeared in Sophos' top ten chart.
"Klez continues to hang around like a bad smell - those hit by it couldn't have updated their anti-virus protection in more than a year. Now that it's possible to receive fully automated updates, there's really no excuse", said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant, Sophos Anti-Virus.
"Although it's easy to protect against Klez, it's a seriously nasty virus to recover from," he added.
MessageLabs reports that one in 270 emails it processed this month contained a virus, around average during a month where vulnerabilities - rather than viruses - have posed the greater security headache.
Although the Iraq war (AKA Ganda-A) virus and Bibrog-B virus, which poses as a computer game, dominated the headlines, older viruses dominate both the Sophos and MessageLabs charts.
Neither chart has changed significantly from last month.
More: The Register (UK)
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