Spam Supplement issue archive
With the distinction between spam and malware becoming increasingly
blurred, and the two types of threats increasingly related, the decision was taken to
retire Virus Bulletin's Spam Supplement in July 2009. Virus Bulletin continues to cover
spam and anti-spam issues - including articles on technical and ethical aspects of spam, some
relating to real-world experiences of dealing with spam, and of course our VBSpam comparative reviews of anti-spam products.
These articles can now be found integrated into the rest of the publication.
Spam Bulletin - December 2006
Anti-spam news; The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam (feature)
Spam Bulletin - November 2006
Anti-spam news; The rise and rise of image-based spam (feature)
Spam Bulletin - October 2006
Anti-spam news; AISK - a different approach (feature)
Spam Bulletin - September 2006
Anti-spam news; Present and future phishing techniques (feature)
Spam Bulletin - August 2006
Anti-spam news; SPUTR: a proposal for the uniform naming of spammer and phisher content tricks (feature)
Spam Bulletin - July 2006
Anti-spam news; Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack (feature); Hamfighting - how acceptable are
false positives? (feature); Phish fingering (book review); EU Spam Symposium 2006 (conference report)
Spam Bulletin - June 2006
Anti-spam news; SpamOrHam (feature)
Spam Bulletin - May 2006
Anti-spam news; Turn off your PC (feature)
Spam Bulletin - April 2006
Anti-spam news; Why is PayPal phishing ... a serious business? (feature)
Spam Bulletin - March 2006
Anti-spam news; fighting spam with data compression models (feature)
Spam Bulletin - February 2006
Anti-spam news; does Bayesian poisoning exist?
Spam Bulletin - January 2006
Anti-spam news; TREC 2005 spam track report
As expected, the annual VB100 test on Windows XP was an epic. A higher than usual pass rate was tempered by numerous stability issues with the products under test, prompting the unveiling of a new stability rating system. John Hawes has all the details.