'Phishing levels ... are expected to rise again due to the adoption of spear-phishing techniques.' Mark Sunner, MessageLabs.
Bank signs deal with AV vendor in an attempt to stop phishers in their tracks.
Microsoft anti-virus goes on general release.
Buffer overflow vulnerability found in corporate AV software.
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.
In April 2006 a virus appeared for a new virusable platform - the general-purpose, mathematics-oriented MatLab. Vesselin Bontchev provides us with the full details of the unremarkable and slightly buggy proof-of-concept virus MLab/Balogy.A.
Sanjay Katkar describes how recent malicious programs have exploited the PE file format, manipulating the header fields to avoid detection.
Eddy Willems provides a roundup of this year's EICAR conference.
In Matt Ham's final comparative review for Virus Bulletin he puts 26 products for Windows XP through their paces. Two products enter the test line-up for the first time this month: TrustPort Antivirus and the rather more well-known Microsoft OneCare. In his own inimitable style, Matt provides rude comments and/or praise for all products, as well as the all-important VB 100% results.
This month's anti-spam news and John Graham-Cumming describes the aims of and ideas behind the SpamOrHam project.