Virus Bulletin - December 2006


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2006-12-01


Comment

What is anti-virus software?

'As security companies we must provide multiple layers of defence to protect our users properly.' Robert Sandilands, Authentium.

Robert Sandilands - Authentium, USA

News

Festive greetings

Yuletide wishes.


In the picture?

Remember VB94?


Stocking filler

Collection of 419 baiting tales.


Malware prevalence report

October 2006

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.


Analyses

Leaps and bounds

Peter Ferrie describes a virus that comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and which uses an entrypoint obscuring technique that no one has used before: W32/Bounds and W64/Bounds!AMD64.

Peter Ferrie - Symantec Security Response, USA

What next? Trojan.Linkoptimizer

The Linkoptimizer trojan raised alarms in the AV industry signalling that there are other ingenious ways besides advanced rootkits to make the lives of both users and security providers difficult. Mircea Ciubotariu has the full details of Trojan.Linkoptmizer.

Mircea Ciubotariu - Symantec Security Response, Ireland

Feature

Trojan crimeware - is it worth all the fuss?

Jeffrey Aboud investigates the buzz surrounding trojan crimeware.

Jeffrey Aboud - Independent writer, USA

Comparative review

VB Comparative: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

A diverse range of products was submitted for this month’s 64-bit comparative review. John Hawes has the details of how they all fared.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin

Call for papers

VB2007 Vienna

Calling all speakers.


Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - December 2006

Anti-spam news; The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam (feature)


 

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