VB2002 Conference Programme

Day 1 - Thursday 26 September

Corporate stream

• What's the big idea? David Perry, Trend Micro
• How squeaky are your wheels? - measuring the health of a user population John Alexander, Wells Fargo
• Evolution of an automated virus scanning system Randy Abrams, Microsoft Corporation
• Computer viruses and the law Meiring de Villiers, Stanford University
• Remodelling the fortress: responding to new freedoms and new threats in 2002 and beyond Joe Donovan, Prudential Financial
• Fighting network worms in a large corporate environment Joe Waddington & John Morris, Nortel Networks
• Free anti-virus techniques Nick FitzGerald, Computer Virus Consulting Ltd
• e-bugs: should anti-virus products detect them? Graham Cluley, Sophos Anti-Virus

Technical stream

• Blended attacks: exploits, vulnerabilites and buffer overflow techniques in computer viruses Eric Chien & Péter Ször, Symantec Security Response
• Heuristics: retrospective and future Richard Marko, ESET Software
• Sandbox II: Internet Kurt Natvig, Norman ASA
• Are there any polymorphic macro viruses at all? (...and what to do with them) Gabor Szappanos, Virus Buster [paper]
• Virus patrol: five years of scanning the USENET Dmitry O. Gryaznov, Network Associates, Inc.
• Malware in a small pot Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Labs
• Hidden under the hood - Linux backdoors Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure Corporation
• The Win32 worms: classification and possibility of heuristic detection Taras Malivanchuk, Computer Associates

Day 2 - Friday 27 September

Corporate stream

• AVIEN - what a trip! Robert Vibert, AVIEN Moderator
• How to use live viruses as an education tool Klas Schöldström, Brainpool Consulting AB
• Retrospective testing - how good heuristics really work Andreas Marx, AV-Test.org
• A year of WormCatching Roger Thompson, ICSA
• What's next - predicting the future by looking at the past Alex Shipp, MessageLabs
• Corporate anti-virus best practices Jeanette Jarvis, Boeing Corporation
• The evolution of managing viruses in a large corporation Ed Hahn, IBM
• TBC Guy Vancollie, Ubizen
• The administrator's guide to behaviour blocking Carey Nachenberg & Stephen Trilling, Symantec Corporation

Technical stream

• 32-bit virus threats on 64-bit Windows Atli Gudmundsson, Symantec Security Response, EMEA
• Cleaning up the mess: time to redefine 'disinfection'? Gergely Erdelyi, F-Secure Corporation
• Java 2 ME - a playground for malicious code? Markus Schmall, T-Mobile
• How to smell a RAT - remote administration tools vs backdoor Trojans Jakub Kaminski & Hamish O'Dea, Computer Associates Pty Ltd
• Software restriction policies in Windows XP John Lambert, Microsoft Corporation [paper]
• Booting the unbootable Lucijan Caric & Tomo Sombolac, Qubis d.o.o.
• Unix malware analysis after break-in Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET Information and Network Security
• Macro and script virus polymorphism Dr. Vesselin Bontchev, FRISK Software International; Katrin Tocheva, F-Secure Corporation
• The four faces of a virus researcher James M. Wolfe, Lockheed Martin Corporation

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