Virus Bulletin - June 2005


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editor: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2005-06-01


Comment

Your computer is toast

When will a silver bullet come along that makes computers work as well as toasters?

John Aycock - University of Calgary

Adware analysis

Standing the privilege attack

The security and resource implications of adware - particularly in the corporate environment - are becoming an increasing concern for users. While AV vendors continue the tricky process of determining what should and should not be detected, adware itself is becoming increasingly advanced - both in the way it hooks the system and in the way it prevents itself from being removed. Here, Sergei Shevchenko presents Virus Bulletin's first adware analysis.

Sergei Shevchenko - Symantec Security Response

Technical feature

Problems in static binary analysis: Part 2

In the first part of this article we inspected several problems that are encountered when particular objects are loaded into memory. In this part we will inspect further problems associated with static analysis techniques.

Aleksander Czarnowski - AVET Information and Network Security, Poland

Comparative review

VB Comparative: Windows XP - June 2005

This month's testing process proved to be relatively plain sailing for VB's resident reviewer Matt Ham. Find out whether it was such a breeze for the 28 products on test.

Matt Ham - Virus Bulletin

 

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