INF/Autorun.gen has increased affecting by standing first in the month June 2013
BANGALORE / MUMBAI, India – July 25, 2013
ESET, global provider of security solutions for businesses and consumers, today published the threat report for India for the month of June 2013 by revealing the findings of a daily survey by ThreatSense.Net®. It is the ‘in-the-cloud’ malware collection system utilizing data from users of ESET solutions worldwide. ESET has reported that INF/Autorun.gen has increasingly harming ESET users, for several different reasons.
ESET worldwide survey of 100 billion computer users uncovers some alarming attitudes towards INF/Autorun.gen – a generic detection for an “autorun.inf” file created by malware. It can spread through spam, email attachments, malicious websites, unsafe downloads and many other ways.
ESET also reports that INF/Autorun.gen is the generic malware which was highly affecting even for the month May 2013.
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