It figures high on the global tables (coming in fifth) but is both local to South America and of great interest. Dorkut may be an exception to these general principles. Neither of these outbreaks are sufficiently widespread to figure highly in global league tables, but are of particular interest and concern to the researchers. Often the interesting stories are related to comparatively low and often localized infected populations.” He singled out “Dorifel/Quervar in the Netherlands”, indicating that a new analysis may be published by ESET later today, and “ Stuxnet and its siblings in Iran and the Middle East.” “Because the infected population is so large and our detections are usually very generic, they tend to change fairly slowly. “The most interesting statistics aren't necessarily the big numbers (unless there's a sudden explosion of something),” said Harley. While the eye might be drawn to the headlines, ESET’s researchers tend to look lower down. “And even though the Conficker botnet is essentially dormant, there are enough residual infections for our telemetry to keep picking up their presence.” “Somehow INF/Autorun is still top of the pops, in spite of Microsoft's neutering of the Autorun vector,” ESET senior research fellow David Harley told Infosecurity.

Worldwide, INF/Autorun malware and Conficker take first and third position respectively.