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Anti-spam comparative review (s)

This month’s anti-spam comparative review saw another increase in the field of competitors with 14 products taking their place on the test bench. Martijn Grooten has all the details.

Case study: the TDSS rootkit

The TDSS modular downloader is known for its ability to bypass active protection, for its outstanding persistence and its rootkit functions. Alisa Shevchenko presents a detailed case study.

One man's spam

'The most troublesome category of messages – that requires the most thought – are those that occupy the awkward grey area between ham and spam.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

Microsoft Security Essentials (s)

Microsoft Security Essentials, the long-awaited replacement for the Windows Live OneCare package, is finally with us. VB's test team put Microsoft's new free home-user package through its paces, declaring it to be pretty decent overall.

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Events calendar

Date Event Location
Dec 07 - 11 ACSAC 2009 Honolulu, Hawaii
Dec 27 - 30 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) Berlin, Germany
Jan 31 - Feb 01 Black Hat DC 2010 Washington, DC, USA
Mar 01 - 05 RSA Conference 2010 San Francisco, CA, Canada
Mar 03 - 04 Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2010 London, UK
Mar 16 - 18 Security Summit Milan, Italy
Mar 22 - 26 CanSecWest Vancouver, Canada
Mar 25 - 26 MIT Spam Conference Boston, MA, USA
Apr 12 - 15 Black Hat Europe 2010 Barcelona, Spain
Sept 29 - Oct 01 VB2010 Vancouver Vancouver, Canada

Malware prevalence

Virus Name Prevalence Pct
Bredolab |#############################| 35.5%
OnlineGames |######################| 26.8%
Invoice |######| 6.5%
Murlo |###| 3.2%
Encrypted/Obfuscated |###| 3.2%
Downloader-misc |###| 3.1%
Mytob |###| 3.1%
FakeAV |###| 2.8%
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A total of 14 products took part in VB's latest round of anti-spam product testing. Check out the results here.

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