The latest monthly report by Sunbelt Software showed more than one-third of the malware infections detected in March were due to just two viruses - both trojans.
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT was found to be March's most widespread malware, accounting for 31.07 per cent of the total, while Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.genc came in second with 4.97 per cent.
In addition, the research revealed that INF.Autorun and BehavesLike.Win32.Malware were the most recent entries to the common e-threat top ten, while Trojan.Win32.Agent and Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen dropped off the list.
Sunbelt Software research centre manager Tom Kelchner highlighted the need for IT security managers to use high-quality security software, explaining: 'Good antivirus defence requires not only up-to-the-minute detections of malware, but fast detection as well.'
Last month's State of Software Security report by Veracode argued that most internally-developed, open source, outsourced and commercial applications are vulnerable to exploitation by cybercriminals.
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT was found to be March's most widespread malware, accounting for 31.07 per cent of the total, while Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.genc came in second with 4.97 per cent.
In addition, the research revealed that INF.Autorun and BehavesLike.Win32.Malware were the most recent entries to the common e-threat top ten, while Trojan.Win32.Agent and Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen dropped off the list.
Sunbelt Software research centre manager Tom Kelchner highlighted the need for IT security managers to use high-quality security software, explaining: 'Good antivirus defence requires not only up-to-the-minute detections of malware, but fast detection as well.'
Last month's State of Software Security report by Veracode argued that most internally-developed, open source, outsourced and commercial applications are vulnerable to exploitation by cybercriminals.
