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April issue of VB published

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

The April 2010 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: This month sees the largest ever VB100 comparative review - with a phenomenal 60 products being tested on Windows XP. VB's test director John Hawes has all the details.

• Are takedowns an exercise in futility?: 'There is often little incentive for domain registrars or hosting providers to make it more difficult for criminals to obtain services.' Mary Landesman, ScanSafe

• Evasions in Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems: Abhishek Singh and colleagues look at some of the more common methods of evading IDS/IPS detection and the ways in which solutions can counter these evasive techniques.

• Botnets, politics and hacktivism - an interesting partnership: Terry Zink looks at the increasingly common phenomenon of hacktivism and details three recent cyber warfare attacks.

• 'Signatures are dead.' 'Really? And what about pattern matching?': While accepting the increasing importance of behavioural analysis and detection, Gyozo Papp looks at how current detection technologies, from the simplest to the most complex, can be backed up by pattern matching, proving that it is a mature technology that is very much alive.

• Exploit kit explosion - part one: In the first of a two-part series introducing exploit kits, Mark Davis outlines the basic details of the dime-a-dozen kits used in drive-by browser-based attacks.

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12 April 2010

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