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Consulting editors & advisory board

Virus Bulletin prides itself on its editorial independence, ensuring it presents its readership with informed comment about the anti-virus industry without bias towards any particular vendor.

Virus Bulletin is supported by a team of consulting editors and an advisory board comprising some of the world's leading anti-malware and anti-spam experts. These people help to ensure the quality and independence of every issue of the magazine:

Consulting editors

• Morton Swimmer, City University of New York, USA
• Ian Whalley, IBM Research, USA
• Nick FitzGerald, Independent consultant, New Zealand
• Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
• Edward Wilding, Data Genetics, UK

Advisory board

• Pavel Baudis, Alwil Software, Czech Republic
• Dr Sarah Gordon, Independent research scientist, USA
• John Graham-Cumming, France
• Shimon Gruper, Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd, Israel
• Dmitry Gryaznov, McAfee, USA
• Joe Hartmann, Microsoft, USA
• Dr Jan Hruska, Sophos, UK
• Jeannette Jarvis, Microsoft, USA
• Jakub Kaminski, Microsoft, Australia
• Eugene Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab, Russia
• Jimmy Kuo, Microsoft, USA
• Anne P. Mitchell, Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, USA
• Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab, Russia
• Pëter Ször, Symantec, USA
• Roger Thompson, AVG, USA
• Joseph Wells, Lavasoft, USA

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