Fighting malware and spam
2005-06-01
Abstract
Your computer is toast (comment); Standing the privilege attack (adware analysis); Problems in static binary analysis - part 2 (technical feature); Comparative review - Windows XP
Comment
Your computer is toast
When will a silver bullet come along that makes computers work as well as toasters?
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, presents Virus Bulletin's first adware analysis.
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.
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.
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Malware Prevalence
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| Zbot |
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| Dropper-misc |
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| Delf |
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