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August issue of VB published

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

The August 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 comparative review & certification on Vista: This month VB's test team put 35 products through their paces on Windows Vista. After sifting through product freezes, crashes, hangs, logging difficulties and false positives, John Hawes reveals the full results.

• Why is security (still) a Utopia?: I hate FUD just as much as the next guy, but it did serve a purpose. People were more aware ... The sensational headlines kept up interest.' Per Hellqvist, Symantec.

• Making a Hash of things: Peter Ferrie details a virus that, while not ground-breaking, is a good lesson in being wary of received wisdom.

• Everybody lies: reaching after the truth while searching for rootkits: Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk introduce a new method for retrieving information from a possibly compromised system.

• Automated clustering of unknown executables: Robert Sandilands describes a clustering technique aimed at helping in the daily efforts of analysing large numbers of samples.

• Reflections on CEAS 2009: Gordon Cormack describes the highlights of the sixth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 2009).

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03 August 2009

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