April issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Apr 1, 2009

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

The April 2009 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:

• VB100 on Windows XP: An impressive range of 39 products from 34 different vendors were submitted for the Windows XP comparative review, with the regular well-known brands accompanied by an interesting set of less well-known names and a handful of newcomers. This month also saw the first major set of results from VB's new RAP tests putting products' reactive and proactive detection abilities to the test. John Hawes has all the details.

• Flooding the cloud: 'An even better solution is to be proactive in the cloud.' Luis Corrons, Panda Security

• Anti-unpacker tricks - part five: New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This month's article concentrates on anti-debugging tricks that target the OllyDbg debugger.

• Your PC is infected: Rogue anti-malware applications have been around for several years, conning and causing confusion among users as well as posing problems for anti-malware vendors. Gabor Szappanos takes a look at a piece of anti-virus scamware.

• The new iBotnet: Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli take a detailed look at what appears to be the first real attempt to create a Mac botnet.

• Mail authentication with Domain Keys Identified Mail - part one: Message authentication is a promising technique that can be used to help separate wanted email from unwanted email, and Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an authentication technique that seems likely to gain wide acceptance. John Levine looks at what message authentication is and how DKIM works.

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Posted on 02 April 2009 by Virus Bulletin

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