Fighting malware and spam

September issue of VB published

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

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

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

• Does the punishment fit the crime?: 'Once bitten does not, it seems, make twice shy for spammers.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin.

• Prophet and loss: Peter Ferrie begins a series of analyses of viruses contained in the long-delayed (and probably last of its kind) EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

• All your MP3s are belong to us: Christoph Alme and his colleagues walk through the complete attack process of the Win32.ASF-Hijacker.A trojan, which has two different sets of victims: those affected by the trojan itself and those affected by media files altered by the trojan.

• Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo: Paul Baccas summarises the good, the bad and the ugly within Jakobsson and Ramzan's 'Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses'.

• Malware teaching considered harmful?: Richard Ford and William Allen, both teachers of malware courses at Florida Institute of Technology, present their views on the teaching of virus-writing as part of security courses.

• Product review - Lavasoft Ad-Aware: Having started up focusing on unwanted tracking behaviour, Lavasoft's Ad-Aware has gradually branched out to cover adware, spyware and now with the integration of a full anti-malware engine, the gamut of trojans, viruses and worms, with a selection of extras thrown in for good measure. John Hawes reports on how the product has developed to face the multi-pronged malware dangers of the modern age.

• The problem of backscatter - part 1: Backscatter is one of the hot issues in the world of spam filtering. So what exactly is backscatter? Why does it occur? How do we stop it? And why can't we do a better job of filtering it? Terry Zink explains all.

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01 September 2008

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