Virus Bulletin - September 2006


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2006-09-01

Comment

Respecting the testing

'Competition for good test results, and so for respect, trust and strong sales, feeds development and innovation.' John Hawes, Virus Bulletin, UK

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin, UK

News

Nearly VB 100%

Near misses.


Testing patience

Consumer Reports does it again.


Malware prevalence report

July 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.


Virus analysis

Gatt got your tongue?

One of the most popular tools for an anti-virus researcher is the Interactive Disassembler (IDA), and its IDC scripting language has become the latest target, thanks to W32/Gatt. Peter Ferrie has the details.

Peter Ferrie - Symantec, USA

Rootkit analysis

Raising the bar: Rustock and advances in rootkits

Recently a new type of rootkit was discovered in the wild and it is unique given the techniques it uses. Elia Florio and Prashant Pathak take an indepth look at Backdoor.Rustock.A.

Elia Florio - Symantec Security Response, Ireland & Prashant Pathak - Symantec Security Response, USA

Feature

The world of botnets

Alan Solomon and Gadi Evron take a look into the world of botnets.

Dr Alan Solomon - Programmer, UK & Gadi Evron - Beyond Security, Israel

Book reviews

War of the words

David Harley reviews Robert Slade's Dictionary of Information Security.

David Harley - Small Blue-Green World, UK

I spy

David Harley reviews Combating Spyware in the Enterprise.

David Harley - Small Blue-Green World, UK

Product review

Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0

John Hawes takes an indepth look at Kaspersky's current home-user offering.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin, UK

Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - September 2006

Anti-spam news; Present and future phishing techniques (feature)


 

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