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'The purpose of the VB100 is to provide a regular measure of the competence, reliability and credibility of software vendors in the security field.' John Hawes, Virus Bulletin.

Profiling binaries for instrumentation

Instrumenting binaries is a technique that is rapidly gaining popularity among security researchers. Profiling the binary beforehand can provide a lot of important information about the target, as Aleksander Czarnowksi explains.

Advertising database poisoning

Adware programs have variously been dressed up as providing anti-phishing protection, intrusion detection capabilities as well as the ‘benefit’ of targeted advertising, but their presence is still a considerable nuisance to many. Here, Lysa Myers looks into the dubious world of Internet advertising and looks at the effects of programs such as AntiPhorm on adware in general.

The dark side of whitelisting

Dr Vesselin Bontchev shares his views on whitelisting and why conventional anti-virus scanners will be around for a long time to come.

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Malware prevalence

Virus Name	Prevalence	Percentage
NetSky		25.196 %
Agent		15.680 %
Rays/Traxg/Wukill		10.120%
Mytob		9.384 %
OnlineGames		8.033 %
Cutwail/Pandex/Pushdo		7.012 %
Virut		4.338 %
Bifrose/Pakes		3.994 %

VGrep

VGrep is an essential tool designed to help clear up some of the confusion surrounding the naming of viruses.
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VB100

Virus Bulletin's unique VB100 certification scheme provides an unbiased picture of how anti-malware products fair in a competitive analysis. The stringent product testing methods combined with VB's commitment to reporting performances exactly as they are found makes the VB100 an award vendors strive to achieve.

Panel discussion at the VB Conference.

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 18th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2008) will be held 1-3 October 2007 in Ottawa, Canada.

‘The corporate speakers were very skilled and represented small to large businesses.’