2006-02-01
Abstract
What threats may come (comment); Not worthy (virus analysis); Inside the Windows Meta File format (technical feature); Learning from Sony: an external perspective (opinion); Signature updates vs BCP (feature); Windows NT 4 Workstation (comparative review)
Comment
What threats may come
'A serious threat in 2006 will be multi-stage, targeted phishing attacks.' Tomer Honen, Aladdin Knowledge Systems.
News
Neighbourhood Watch to fight 'badware'
New initiative aimed at fighting spyware, malware and deceptive adware.
VB2006 call for papers
The deadline for submitting paper proposals for VB2006 is fast approaching.
Addendeum: The false positive disaster
Addendum to article in VB November 2005.
Malware prevalence report
December 2005
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.
Virus analysis
Not worthy
Peter Ferrie has the details of MSIL/Idonus.
Technical feature
Inside the Windows Meta File format
The Windows Meta File (WMF) format has received a lot of attention over recent weeks. Peter Ferrie looks at why.
Opinion
Learning from Sony: an external perspective
Dan Kaminsky takes a long hard look at the reaction (or lack thereof) of the AV industry to the Sony rootkit incident and assesses the consequences.
Feature
Signature updates vs BCP
Would you ever expect a well established anti-virus company to fail to provide you with signature updates? Would your company's security policy be ready to deal with such a situation?
Comparative review
VB Comparative: Windows NT 4 Workstation - February 2006
Matt Ham fully expected a bumper harvest of VB 100% awards this month, simply due to the familiarity of the Windows NT platform to the developers.
Spam Bulletin
Spam Bulletin - February 2006
This month's anti-spam news and John Graham-Cumming investigates whether Bayesian poisoning really exists.
Poll
Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?Leave a comment
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Virus Bulletin
In this month's magazine:- Social networking meets social engineering
- Flying solo
- Geneva convention
- 7th German Anti Spam Summit 2009
- Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment
- An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war?
- Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 x86

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