'The main trend I have observed this year has been the spread of malware activity across several forms of technology and applications.' Eddy Willems.
Festive wishes.
50% of users don't believe Vista has made the Internet any safer.
FBI reports successes of operation Bot Roast; McAfee predicts cyber espionage for 2008.
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.
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The author of MSIL/Yakizake claimed that ‘very few implementations of multi-platform malware exist up until now'. Peter Ferrie lists a dozen multi-platform viruses and explains why Yakizake does not qualify for the category.
Rachit Mathur and Aditya Kapoor present an analysis of the techniques used by the Tibs packer and describes the reasons for its prolonged effectiveness.
In the second installment of this three-part series on exepacker blacklisting, Robert Neumann provides a more detailed look at the different types of blacklisting and describes the tools that are available for analysis.
These days we are used to seeing interactive multimedia content on websites - but unfortunately it is possible for these file formats to contain more than one might expect. Christoph Alme and Dennis Elser present a round-up of recent multimedia vulnerabilities.
Fewer than half the products submitted for this VB100 review on Windows 2000 made the grade - largely thanks to some pesky polymorphic file infectors and a rash of false positives. John Hawes has all the details.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
Anti-spam news; Spam and the digital divide (feature)