Fighting malware and spam
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.
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.
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.
Book review
Vers & Virus
Eddy Willems reviews: Vers & Virus by François Paget.
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.
Poll
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VB100 certification
VB's testing team put 24 anti-malware products to the test on
the server version of Microsoft's latest iteration of the Windows
platform: Windows Server 2008. John Hawes has all the details on which
products managed to secure a VB100 award and which need have a little
more work to do.
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