BitDefender Lab’s Top 10 Malware List for 2007

BUCHAREST, Romania – December 18, 2007 – BitDefender®, a global provider of award-winning antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today that the Peed bot – aka "Storm Worm" aka "Nuwar" – was number one on the BitDefender Top 10 malware list for 2007. According to BitDefender Labs, the spread of the Peed bot has placed it higher that the prolific category of trojan downloaders by almost 10 percent overall, at 33.94 percent of total detections in the past twelve months.