From the bedroom to the bank – IT threats evolve

'Phishing levels ... are expected to rise again due to the adoption of spear-phishing techniques.' Mark Sunner, MessageLabs.

Bank takes steps to increase customer security

Bank signs deal with AV vendor in an attempt to stop phishers in their tracks.

OneCare goes live

Microsoft anti-virus goes on general release.

Symantec vulnerability discovered - and fixed

Buffer overflow vulnerability found in corporate AV software.

April 2006

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.

Math baloney: yet another first

In April 2006 a virus appeared for a new virusable platform - the general-purpose, mathematics-oriented MatLab. Vesselin Bontchev provides us with the full details of the unremarkable and slightly buggy proof-of-concept virus MLab/Balogy.A.

Inside the PE file format

Sanjay Katkar describes how recent malicious programs have exploited the PE file format, manipulating the header fields to avoid detection.

EICAR 2006 in a nutshell

Eddy Willems provides a roundup of this year's EICAR conference.

VB Comparative: Windows XP - June 2006

In Matt Ham's final comparative review for Virus Bulletin he puts 26 products for Windows XP through their paces. Two products enter the test line-up for the first time this month: TrustPort Antivirus and the rather more well-known Microsoft OneCare. In his own inimitable style, Matt provides rude comments and/or praise for all products, as well as the all-important VB 100% results.

Spam Bulletin - June 2006

This month's anti-spam news and John Graham-Cumming describes the aims of and ideas behind the SpamOrHam project.