Fighting malware and spam
VB2003 conference programme
Thursday 25 Sept
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.15 | Opening address | ||
| 09.30-10.10 |
Prevention vs cure vs freedom: achieving the business balance
Peter Cooper, Sophos Plc |
Spam - past and future
Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab |
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| 10.30-11.10 |
Corporate threat assessment matrix
Chuck Springer, IBM |
Taking down the Internet
Dmitry O. Gryaznov, Network Associates Inc. |
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| 11.10-11.50 |
Anti-virus support, the need for making a career field
Kenneth L. Bechtel, Team Anti-Virus |
Worm charming: taking SMB Lure to the next level
Martin Overton, IBM Global Services, UK |
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| 11.50-12.30 |
Convergence of virus writers and hackers: fact or fantasy?
Sarah Gordon, Symantec Security Response Qingxiong Ma, Southern Illinois University |
The single engine vs. multiple engine debate
Invited panel |
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| 14.00-14.40 |
Detecting hoaxes as the spam they truly are
Heather Goudey, Computer Associates |
OpenOffice security
Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure |
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| 14.40-15.20 |
Anti-virus technology: filtering the legal issues
Leif Gamertsfelder, Deacons |
Dazuko: an open solution to facilitate 'on-access' scanning
John Ogness, H+BEDV |
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| 15.40-16.20 |
Educating the users
David Phillips, The Open Univeristy, UK |
.NET support in UNIX
Marius van Oers, McAfee Avert |
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| 16.20 | AV testing panel discussion | ||
Friday 26 Sept
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09.40-10.20 |
Smarter ways to fight smarter threats
Conrad Herrmann, Zone Labs |
Malicious threats and vulnerabilities in instant messaging
Eric Chien, Symantec Neal Hindocha, Symantec |
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| 10.40-11.20 |
Incident management
Jeannette Jarvis, Boeing Corporation |
To do or not to do: anti-virus accessories
Jong Purisima, Trend Micro |
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| 11.20-12.00 |
Real-time WildList
Bruce Hughes, ICSA Labs |
How do advanced Win32 worms really work?
Kurt Natvig, Norman ASA |
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| 12.00-12.40 |
Customer understanding, opinion and expectation - the least understood area of anti-virus
David Perry, Trend Micro |
Malware and anti-virus on 64-bit platforms
Myles Jordan, Computer Associates |
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| 14.00-14.40 |
Fact, fiction and managed anti-malware services
David Harley, National Health Service Information Authority |
Defeating polymorphism through code optimization
Frédéric Perriot, Symantec |
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| 14.40-15.20 |
A law enforcement perspective
Nina Gaubert, National Hi-Tech Crime Unit |
Polymorphic shellcode: advances in recent years
Aleksander Czarnowski, AVET |
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| 15.40-16.00 |
V3Genie system: an automated multi-scanner system
Kyu-beom Hwang, Ahnlab |
XML heaven
Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster |
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| 16.20-17.00 |
An epidemiological model of virus spread and cleanup
Matthew Williamson, Hewlett Packard Labs Jasmin Leveille, Hewlett Packard Labs |
Inside VBA6 decompiler
L'ubos Vrtík, Eset |
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| 17.00 | Virus naming discussion panel | ||
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