Kaspersky Lab, a leading provider of security solutions that protect against viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, crimeware, rootkits, phishing, hacker attacks and spam, today revealed that 35,103 different malicious and potentially unwanted programs were detected on users’ computers by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) during September 2008. Kaspersky Lab first detected and added the rootkit to its anti-malware databases on 28th August 2008 and throughout September it actively spread across the Internet.