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Anti-spam comparative review July 2009 (s)

In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in which more products were tested against a larger spam corpus and with stricter benchmarks.

A day in the life of an average user

Gabor Szappanos researches the dangers of being an average computer user.

MicroWorld eScan Internet Security Suite 10

The VB testing team put MicroWorld Technologies’ eScan Internet Security Suite through its paces and find a top-class level of protection with much to offer.

Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting (s)

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and detecting typos entered into Internet browsers and email clients.

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Events calendar

Date Event Location
Jul 16 - 17 Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) 2009 Mountain View, CA, USA
Jul 22 - 23 Mastering Computer Forensics - masterclass Jakarta, Indonesia
Jul 25 - 30 Black Hat USA 2009 Las Vegas, NV, USA
Aug 12 - 14 USENIX Security Symposium 2009 Montreal, Canada
Sept 09 - 10 International Cyber Conflict Legal & Policy Conference 2009 Tallinn, Estonia
Sept 14 - 16 7th German Anti Spam Summit Wiesbaden, Germany
Sept 15 Keeping Public Sector Data Private London, UK
Sept 15 - 17 IMF 2009: 5th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics Stuttgart, Germany
Sept 21 - 22 SOURCE Barcelona 2009 Barcelona, Spain
Sept 23 - 25 VB2009 Geneva, Switzerland

Malware prevalence

Virus Name Prevalence Pct
Dropper-misc |################| 19.0%
Waledac |###############| 18.0%
Agent |###########| 13.7%
NetSky |#######| 8.3%
Invoice |######| 6.9%
Virut |#####| 6.0%
OnlineGames |###| 2.7%
Iframe |###| 2.6%
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Anti-spam testing

VB spam testingVirus Bulletin's anti-spam tests use a live email stream to expose all products on test to the same email in real time. The tests measure products' spam catch rate and false positive rate and certifications are awarded to products that achieve or exceed predefined benchmarks in both measurements.

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VB2009 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 19th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2009) will be held 23-25 September 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland. Register now!

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Malware Prevalence

Dropper-misc |################|
Waledac |###############|
Agent |###########|
NetSky |#######|
Invoice |######|
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