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DriveSentry Desktop 3.1/3.2 & GoAnywhere 1.0.2/2.0

John Hawes looks at two products from DriveSentry - part of a growing new breed of security products, which focus less on the traditional arts of the anti-malware world, and aim instead to protect systems by preventing unauthorized software from performing any potentially dangerous activity.

Blended malware defence

It's a well known problem in the security industry that the time taken to get a sample to the vendor, through analysis and finally to distribute detection updates to clients, can still be much longer than it takes for the malware itself to spread. Morton Swimmer describes how the convergence of various security technologies can help accomplish the goal of spreading the cure faster than the disease.

eEye Digital Security Blink Professional 4.0

John Hawes takes an in-depth look at the security features of eEye Digital Security's Blink Professional and finds a solid package with impressive breadth of power.

Co-operation is the only way

'An essential force in the fight against online crime is that of law enforcement.' Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin.

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Malware prevalence

Virus Name	Prevalence	Pct
Agent		24.8%
Zbot		17.4%
Suspect packers		13.9%
Dropper-misc		13.0%
Delf		6.2%
NetSky		5.9%
Downloader-misc		4.9%
Autorun		4.6%

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VB Conference

The VB conference is a major highlight of the anti-malware calendar, with many of its regular attendees citing it as the anti-malware event of the year. The 19th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2009) will be held 23-25 September 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

‘The material presented is so interesting that it would be worth attending VB just to get my hands on the proceedings. I especially enjoyed the last-minute presentations.’