VB2002 conference programme

Thursday 26 Sept

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
09.15	Opening address
09.30-10.10	What's the big idea? David Perry, Trend Micro	Blended attacks: exploits, vulnerabilites and buffer overflow techniques in computer viruses Eric Chien, Symantec Security Response Péter Ször, Symantec Security Response
10.40-11.20	How squeaky are your wheels? - measuring the health of a user population John Alexander, Wells Fargo	Heuristics: retrospective and future Richard Marko, ESET Software
11.20-12.00	Evolution of an automated virus scanning system Randy Abrams, Microsoft Corporation	Sandbox II: Internet Kurt Natvig, Norman ASA
12.00-12.40	Computer viruses and the law Meiring de Villiers, Stanford University	Are there any polymorphic macro viruses at all? (...and what to do with them) Gabor Szappanos, Virus Buster
14.00-14.40	Remodelling the fortress: responding to new freedoms and new threats in 2002 and beyond Joe Donovan, Prudential Financial	Virus patrol: five years of scanning the USENET Dmitry O. Gryaznov, Network Associates, Inc.
14.40-15.20	Fighting network worms in a large corporate environment Joe Waddington, Nortel Networks John Morris, Nortel Networks	Malware in a small pot Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Labs
15.40-16.20	Free anti-virus techniques Nick FitzGerald, Computer Virus Consulting Ltd	Hidden under the hood - Linux backdoors Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure Corporation
16.20-17.00	e-bugs: should anti-virus products detect them? Graham Cluley, Sophos Anti-Virus	The Win32 worms: classification and possibility of heuristic detection Taras Malivanchuk, Computer Associates

Friday 27 Sept

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
09.00-09.40	AVIEN - what a trip! Robert Vibert, AVIEN Moderator	32-bit virus threats on 64-bit Windows Atli Gudmundsson, Symantec Security Response, EMEA
09.40-10.20	How to use live viruses as an education tool Klas Schöldström, Brainpool Consulting AB	Cleaning up the mess: time to redefine 'disinfection'? Gergely Erdelyi, F-Secure Corporation
10.40-11.20	Retrospective testing - how good heuristics really work Andreas Marx, AV-Test.org	Java 2 ME - a playground for malicious code? Markus Schmall, T-Mobile
11.20-12.00	A year of WormCatching Roger Thompson, ICSA	How to smell a RAT - remote administration tools vs backdoor Trojans Jakub Kaminski, Computer Associates Pty Ltd Hamish O'Dea, Computer Associates Pty Ltd
12.00-12.40	What's next - prediciting the future by looking at the past Alex Shipp, MessageLabs	Software restriction policies in Windows XP John Lambert, Microsoft Corporation
14.00-14.40	Corporate anti-virus best practices Jeanette Jarvis, Boeing Corporation	Booting the unbootable Lucijan Caric and Tomo Sombolac, Qubis d.o.o.
14.40-15.20	The evolution of managing viruses in a large corporation Ed Hahn, IBM	Unix malware analysis after break-in Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET Information and Network Security
15.40-16.20	TBC Guy Vancollie, Ubizen	Macro and script virus polymorphism Dr. Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK Software International Katrin Tocheva, F-Secure Corporation
16.20-17.00	The administrator's guide to behaviour blocking Carey Nachenberg, Symantec Corporation Stephen Trilling, Symantec Corporation	The four faces of a virus researcher James M. Wolfe, Lockheed Martin Corporation
17.00	Speakers panel

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