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VBSpam certification report May 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 XP Pro

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 Oct - Apr 2012

VBSpam Quadrant May 2012

Within the margin of error

‘Only 3% of the webmasters responded... Tanase had rediscovered the Bontchev constant.’ Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster

AV: Mind the gap

‘Has AV run its course and is it time to move on?’ Chad Loeven, Silicium Security

Spitmo – SpyEye component for Symbian

Despite the Windows versions of Zeus and SpyEye now sharing source code, Zitmo and Spitmo - the mobile components of each - have nothing in common at the code level. Spitmo was created from scratch solely for the purpose of stealing mTANs. Mikko Suominen has all the details.

evilMule in kernel mode – an analysis of the network functionality of Sirefef

Win32/Sirefef (a.k.a. ZeroAccess) is one of the most prevalent threats in the wild today. Its main component is a kernel-mode driver, which implements a kernel-mode P2P file distribution system to deploy new malware components and upgrade existing ones. Chun Feng describes the design and implementation of this P2P file distribution system.

VB100 certification report on Windows XP Pro

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 Oct - Apr 2012

VBSpam Quadrant May 2012

Within the margin of error

‘Only 3% of the webmasters responded... Tanase had rediscovered the Bontchev constant.’ Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster

AV: Mind the gap

‘Has AV run its course and is it time to move on?’ Chad Loeven, Silicium Security

Spitmo – SpyEye component for Symbian

Despite the Windows versions of Zeus and SpyEye now sharing source code, Zitmo and Spitmo - the mobile components of each - have nothing in common at the code level. Spitmo was created from scratch solely for the purpose of stealing mTANs. Mikko Suominen has all the details.

evilMule in kernel mode – an analysis of the network functionality of Sirefef

Win32/Sirefef (a.k.a. ZeroAccess) is one of the most prevalent threats in the wild today. Its main component is a kernel-mode driver, which implements a kernel-mode P2P file distribution system to deploy new malware components and upgrade existing ones. Chun Feng describes the design and implementation of this P2P file distribution system.

VBSpam certification report May 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.