Fighting malware and spam

November issue of VB published

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

The November 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:

• Co-operation is the only way to go: 'An essential force in the fight against online crime is that of law enforcement.' Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin.

• XXX racted: Peter Ferrie reaches the last in the collection of viruses created by the writer 'fakemnded' in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

• Your filters are bypassed: Rustock.C in the kernel: Chandra Prakash describes the step-by-step operational characteristics of Rustock.C in kernel mode from its startup to the point at which its spambot code (botdll) is activated in user mode.

• Family matters: 'As the internet is increasingly used for good and evil purposes, how do you know who to trust?' asks Henk van Roest.

• The Ottawa rules: October 2008 saw the annual three-day work-rest-and-play marathon (without so much of the rest) that is the VB conference. A slowly recovering Helen Martin reports on VB2008.

• DriveSentry Desktop 3.1/3.2 & GoAnywhere 1.0.2/2.0: John Hawes looks at two products from DriveSentry - part of a growing new breed of security products, which focus less on the traditional arts of the anti-malware world, and aim instead to protect systems by preventing unauthorized software from performing any potentially dangerous activity.

• The problem of backscatter - part 3: Terry Zink concludes his series of articles on backscatter with a look at another technique used to combat this type of spam: Bounce Address Tag Validation.

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31 October 2008

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