June issue of VB published

The June issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The June 2008 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

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Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

  • The good, the bad and the blurring boundaries: 'The reality is that the distinction between legitimate and malicious software is an ever blurring line.' Greg Day, McAfee
  • Metafile art class: Like its predecessor the Windows Metafile Format, the Enhanced Metafile Format has proven to be susceptible to misappropriation. Dennis Elser provides an in-depth description of a recent remotely exploitable file format vulnerability within the Windows graphics device interface (GDI).
  • Strike me down, and I shall become more powerful!: The rootkit that has been dubbed one of the stealthiest ever seen in the wild is back - with improved defences and new stealth code. Aditya Kapoor and Rachit Mathur look at recent developments in the MBR rootkit.
  • System cleaning: getting rid of malware from infected PCs: Maik Morgenstern and Andreas Marx argue the importance of testing the system cleaning capabilities of anti-malware products and describe how it can be done.
  • EICAR 2008, c'était merveilleux!: Eddy Willems provides a roundup of this year's EICAR conference in Laval, France.
  • VB100 comparative review on Ubuntu Linux: John Hawes dusts off his Linux skills for a comparative review of anti-malware products on the Ubuntu Server platform. Check out which of the 15 products were awarded VB100 status and which failed to make the grade.
  • Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not): Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier's parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.

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02 June 2008

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