Posted by malebolgia on 06 October 2004 - 22:57 · 1 comment & 660 views
Publisher Ubisoft today announced that beginning October 8 gamers who pre-order Prince of Persia: Warrior Within for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox or PC will receive a free collector's edition art book featuring 36 pages of high-resolution illustrations and commentaries from the game's producer and lead artist.

"Prince of Persia: Warrior Within boasts a completely unique and impressive aesthetic, and we wanted to do something different to showcase the artistic talent of the development team," said Ubisoft's Vice President of Marketing, Tony Kee. "The collector's edition art book delivers an exclusive insider's look at one of Fall's most incredible-looking video games, and is a must-have item for fans of the legendary franchise."

News source: ign.com


The Mydoom.m variant that appeared in August hung on to fifth place with the same occurrence rating. The main newcomers this month are two Mydoom variants that appeared in the space of a single day. Bagle authors were not caught napping and brought their summer holidays to a close by releasing several new variants, which all used email and file-sharing networks to spread. TrojanDownloader.JS.Gen is a catch all name for a huge number of Trojans written in Java Script.

We group them together because they all have only one function - to download other malware from the Internet. This summer virus coders were placing such Trojans on websites, wheras in September we saw a new trend: using spammer techniques to mass mail malicious programs. On the one hand, Bagle, LovGate and NetSky variants carry on creating a steady background of virus activity, moving insignificantly up and down in the ratings.

On the other hand, the old steadfasts Swen and Sobig.f have finally disappeared from the Top Twenty. In other words, September 2004 finally saw malware created in previous years vanish totally from the ratings: we now have only viruses created in 2004. Moreover, 16 out of 20 viruses in this month's Top Twenty are worms from only three families. The only serious competion Bagle, NetSky and Mydoom variants face comes from Zafi and Lovgate.


1 +3 I-Worm.NetSky.q 21.67
2 -1 I-Worm.NetSky.aa 13.79
3 +1 I-Worm.Zafi.b 12.70
4 -2 I-Worm.NetSky.b 9.63
5 - I-Worm.Mydoom.m 5.34
6 +2 I-Worm.Bagle.z 4.86
7 +2 I-Worm.NetSky.d 4.55
8 New TrojanDownloader.JS.Gen 4.41
9 -3 I-Worm.NetSky.t 2.51
10 +1 I-Worm.NetSky.y 1.62
11 -1 I-Worm.LovGate.w 1.41
12 New I-Worm.Bagle.as 1.35
13 +2 I-Worm.Mydoom.l 1.11
14 -2 I-Worm.NetSky.r 1.08
15 New I-Worm.Mydoom.t 0.93
16 +3 I-Worm.Bagle.gen 0.86
17 Re-entry I-Worm.NetSky.c 0.83
18 -5 TrojanDropper.VBS.Zerolin 0.73
19 New I-Worm.Bagle.ah 0.62
20 New I-Worm.Mydoom.u 0.51
Other malicious programs 9.50



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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 06 Oct 2004 - 23:10
Cool, looking forward to this one.
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