Fighting malware and spam
2006-03-01
Abstract
Anti-spam news; fighting spam with data compression models (feature)
News
Dutch police arrest Nigerian scammers
419 scamming ring uncovered.
China to crack down on spam
China toughens up its anti-spam regulations.
Vigilant staff avert phishing scam
Scammers halted in their tracks.
Feature
Fighting spam with data compression models
Andrej Bratko describes a spam filtering technique that treats email as a sequence of characters, rather than a collection of words.
Virus Bulletin
Virus Bulletin - March 2006
View from the cheap seats (comment); Proxies for the underworld: I-Worm.Locksky.AS (virus analysis); IM_a nuisance - W32.Imav.A (virus analysis); How can a web filter add proactive security? (feature); Improving proactive detection of packed malware (feature); Changes to the VB test sets (comparative update); Solving the metamorphic puzzle (technical feature)
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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.
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