Fighting malware and spam
2008-06-01
Abstract
Anti-spam news; Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not) (feature)
News
Israel outlaws spam
Knesset approves new anti-spam legislation.
Feature
Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not)
Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier’s parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.
Calendar
Anti-spam industry events
Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.
Virus Bulletin
Virus Bulletin - June 2008
The good, the bad and the blurring boundaries (comment); Metafile art class (feature); Strike me down, and I shall become more powerful! (feature); System cleaning: getting rid of malware from infected PCs (feature); EICAR 2008, c'était merveilleux! (conference report); VB100: Ubuntu Linux 8.04LTS Server Edition (comparative review)
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VB100 certification
VB's testing team put 24 anti-malware products to the test on
the server version of Microsoft's latest iteration of the Windows
platform: Windows Server 2008. John Hawes has all the details on which
products managed to secure a VB100 award and which need have a little
more work to do.
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