In fact, says GFI, the top four threats were unchanged in order from the month of July. Trojans detected as Trojan.Win32.Generic were still the main culprit, slightly down to 25.11% of total detections.
This particular trojan detection, says GFI, has been in the top spot for some time: in July with 29.08% and in June with 27.16% of the total detections.
According to GFI's August research, the number two detection during the month was Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen, a password-stealing trojans with several variants.
The third largest detection was Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra, a generic detection for a variety of malware code that can infect 32- and 64-bit Windows installations.
Commenting on the figures, Francis Montesino, GFI Labs' manager of the firm's malware processing team, said that detections of malware during August indicate that botnet operators are continuing to try to infect machines and use them in their spamming networks.
"Our ThreatNet detections for the month also agree with other reports we've heard in the last few weeks that have found a high level of traffic in rogue security products", he said.
"These are often referred to as scareware. We're seeing a multitude of detections of the downloaders and installers that are associated with the rogues", he added.