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15 million and climbing (Spiegl Online reports that the total may be as high as 50 million infected machines), PCs infected by Conficker (Downadup), at least according to some sources. Some doubts have been expressed about how accurate this calculation is or can be, but there are many factors that complicate the calculation. Nonetheless, it's clear that there are very high volumes of infected machines out there, though there are signs that the number has started to level off, so it's unsurprising that it's attracted so much media attention.
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Not surprisingly, at the top of the list is a family of programs that exploit Microsoft's longest un-patched vulnerability. That's right, Autorun.inf, is an evil "feature" that should have been patched out of existence a long time ago. Since it is so effective for malware there are lots of threats that exploit it.
In the number two position we find a family of threats that steal passwords for online games. This is also pretty logical. There is a lot of money in the sale of "virtual" items and characters for real money.
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