Virus Bulletin - October 2005

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2005-10-01

Abstract

Time to embrace the digital age (comment); Zo-to-business (feature); Grey clouds on the horizon (feature); Vers & virus (book review); Windows 2003 Advanced Server (comparative review); VB Spam Supplement


Comment

Time to embrace the digital age

Virus Bulletin editor Helen Martin talks about the future of the Virus Bulletin publication.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin


Features

Zo-to-business

Apart from being large multinationals, what do CNN, UPS, the New York Times, General Electric and ABC News have in common? The answer is that they (reportedly) were all infected by Zotob. Martin Overton provides an overview of this summer's most fast-spreading network worm.

Martin Overton - Independent Researcher, UK


Grey clouds on the horizon

PSGuard is a 'virus and spyware remover' program which is promoted through the Win32/Nsag infectors. While questionable in terms of motive, the program itself has no malicious payload. Roel Schouwenberg considers the problems 'light grey' applications such as this pose for the AV industry.

Roel Schouwenberg - Kaspersky Lab, The Netherlands


Book review

Vers & Virus

Eddy Willems reviews: Vers & Virus by François Paget.

Eddy Willems - NOXS and EICAR, Belgium


Comparative review

VB Comparative: Windows 2003 Advanced Server - October 2005

27 products squeeze onto the Windows 2003 Advanced Server testing bench this month. Matt Ham has the details.

Matt Ham - Virus Bulletin


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