Less is more

'In a perfect world, it would be nice to have no updates at all – more isn’t better.' Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

New faces

VB welcomes new Technical Consultant.

Big bucks

AV software revenues increase.

m00p group members arrested

Three members of virus-writing gang held.

False positive reduction

Amendment to VB's June Windows XP comparative review.

May 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.

Tumours and polips

The W32/Polip virus caught the AV industry by surprise recently – we didn't expect to see a parasitic virus, and we certainly didn't expect to see anything of such apparent complexity. However, looks can be deceiving. Peter Ferrie reveals all.

Malware, the new driver of PC sales

With a lack of killer applications to spur the market, is the PC industry developing an unhealthy reliance on malicious software? Brian McWilliams presents his thoughts.

Fixing 'the virus problem'?

'Will the new security features in Windows Vista fix the virus problem?' was the question that nearly knocked Andrew Lee off his seat in surprise. Once he had recovered his composure, he decided to provide a more detailed answer than the simple, rather obvious 'no'.

Spam Bulletin - July 2006

Anti-spam news; Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack (feature); Hamfighting - how acceptable are false positives? (feature); Phish fingering (book review); EU Spam Symposium 2006 (conference report)