Virus Bulletin - January 2006


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2006-01-01


Comment

Ally in our defences

'Information is ... our lifeblood for details about computer threats, impact and activity.' Jeannette Jarvis, The Boeing Company.

Jeannette Jarvis - The Boeing Company, USA

News

CSIA sets agenda for government action

Cyber Security Industry Alliance calls for US government action

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Features

Inside the Microsoft script encoder

Peter Ferrie delves inside the Microsoft script encoder.

Peter Ferrie - Symantec Security Response, USA

Cooperative heuristics

John D. Park attempts to teach an anti-virus scanner to 'think' like a human analyst.

John D. Park - Symantec Security Response, USA

What is out there?

Gabor Szappanos asks whether we have a realistic picture of what threats are bothering end users.

Gabor Szappanos - VirusBuster, Hungary

Conference report

AVAR 2005: wired to wireless, hacker to cyber-criminal?

Righard Zwienenberg reports on the 8th annual AVAR conference in Tianjin, China.

Righard Zwienenberg - Norman, The Netherlands

Opinion

The real reason for the decline of the macro virus

Dr. Vesselin Bontchev shares some of his expert knowledge and reveals the real reason for the decline of the macro virus.

Dr. Vesselin Bontchev - FRISK Software International, Iceland

Call for papers

VB2006 Montréal

Virus Bulletin is seeking submissions from those wishing to present at VB2006, the Sixteenth Virus Bulletin International Conference, which will take place 11–13 October 2006 at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montréal, Canada.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Product review

Windows OneCare Live Beta (Build 0.8.0794.44)

VB usually shies away from the testing of beta products, but the beta release of Microsoft's anti-virus offering OneCare Live proved to be just too tempting. Matt Ham describes his findings when he put OneCare Live under the microscope.

Matt Ham - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

November 2005

The Virus Bulletin prevalence table is compiled monthly from virus reports received by Virus Bulletin; both directly, and from other companies who pass on their statistics. Reports are included only if they are confirmed, and hence, in conjunction with the WildList, the prevalence table provides a useful indication of the relative prevalence of various virus found in the wild at the time.


Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - January 2006

This months anti-spam news and the TREC 2005 spam track report.


 

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