June issue of VB published
The June issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.
The June 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:
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VB100 comparative review & certification on Windows 2003 Server x64:
This month's comparative review tackles the 64-bit version of
Windows Server 2003 - with the platform bringing out quite a number of
quirks and oddities in several of the products under test. John Hawes
presents a round up of the results including the latest RAP testing
data. .
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Malware without a name is still malware:
'At the rate malware is currently released ... it may be that the
specific naming of malware is a dead concept.' Lysa Myers, West Coast
Labs.
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Anti-unpacker tricks - part seven:
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 article concentrates on
anti-debugging tricks that target a number of popular debuggers, as well
as some anti-emulating and anti-intercepting tricks.
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CARO mio, AMTSO mon amour:
David Harley reports on two important industry gatherings that
achieved the magic combination of social networking, the exchange of
solid information, great entertainment and a beautiful setting: the CARO
workshop and the latest AMTSO meeting.
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EICAR 2009 in a nutshell: ich bin ein EICARer:
Testing, science fiction, a security legend and some magic - Eddy
Willems describes the highlights of a sunny week in Berlin at the 19th
EICAR conference.
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Where's Waledac?:
Win32/Waledac is a trojan that is used to send spam. It also has
the ability to download and execute arbitrary files, harvest email
addresses from the local machine, perform denial of service attacks,
proxy network traffic and sniff passwords. Scott Wu, Terry Zink and
Scott Molenkamp take a detailed look at the spambot.
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01 June 2009
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This month's VB100 test saw some major changes and a radical overhaul of the VB100 test methodology - for the first time allowing products to use their 'cloud' look-up systems. John Hawes has all the details.