Fighting malware and spam

VBSpam certification report January 2012

The full VBSpam test report provides detailed performance analysis, detection rates and the testing team's thoughts on user experience for each product. The report can now be purchased as a standalone item priced at $19.95.

VB100 certification report on Windows 7 Professional

The full VB100 test report provides detailed performance analysis, detection rates and the testing team's thoughts on user experience for each product. The report can now be purchased as a standalone item priced at $19.95.

VB100 RAP Quadrant Jun - Dec 2011

VBSpam Quadrant January 2012

Relock-based vulnerability in Windows 7

Through analysis of an old piece of malware, researchers at the University of Verona have found unexpected vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and have demonstrated that with some slight tweaks, W32/Relock will run smoothly on the latest OS.

Living the meme

‘Some security commentators suggest inventing answers to [security] questions rather than using real data.' David Harley.

IPv6 mail server whitelist declaring war on botnets

Thanks to the introduction of IPv6, spammers will have access to a much larger pool of unique IP addresses, making it almost impossible for anti-spam companies to maintain useful blacklists. The ‘IPv6whitelist.eu’ was founded to try to solve this problem. The project assumes that all computers send out spam, unless they have been registered on the whitelist. One of the project's co founders, Dreas van Donselaar, explains more.

If Svar is the answer...

It’s not just graphic designers who can do interesting things with the Intel MMX instruction set. Virus writers are finding ways to (ab)use some of the instructions, too. Peter Ferrie has the details of W32/Svar.

VB100 certification report on Windows 7 Professional

The full VB100 test report provides detailed performance analysis, detection rates and the testing team's thoughts on user experience for each product. The report can now be purchased as a standalone item priced at $19.95.

VB100 RAP Quadrant Jun - Dec 2011

VBSpam Quadrant January 2012

Relock-based vulnerability in Windows 7

Through analysis of an old piece of malware, researchers at the University of Verona have found unexpected vulnerabilities in Windows 7 and have demonstrated that with some slight tweaks, W32/Relock will run smoothly on the latest OS.

Living the meme

‘Some security commentators suggest inventing answers to [security] questions rather than using real data.' David Harley.

IPv6 mail server whitelist declaring war on botnets

Thanks to the introduction of IPv6, spammers will have access to a much larger pool of unique IP addresses, making it almost impossible for anti-spam companies to maintain useful blacklists. The ‘IPv6whitelist.eu’ was founded to try to solve this problem. The project assumes that all computers send out spam, unless they have been registered on the whitelist. One of the project's co founders, Dreas van Donselaar, explains more.

If Svar is the answer...

It’s not just graphic designers who can do interesting things with the Intel MMX instruction set. Virus writers are finding ways to (ab)use some of the instructions, too. Peter Ferrie has the details of W32/Svar.

VBSpam certification report January 2012

The full VBSpam test report provides detailed performance analysis, detection rates and the testing team's thoughts on user experience for each product. The report can now be purchased as a standalone item priced at $19.95.