Fighting malware and spam
2006-09-01
Abstract
Respecting the testing (comment); Gatt got your tongue? (virus analysis); Raising the bar: Rustock and advances in rootkits (rootkit analysis); The world of botnets (feature); War of the words (book review); I spy (book review); Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 (product review)
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
News
Nearly VB 100%
Near misses.
Testing patience
Consumer Reports does it again.
Malware prevalence report
July 2006
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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.
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.
Feature
The world of botnets
Alan Solomon and Gadi Evron take a look into the world of botnets.
Book reviews
War of the words
David Harley reviews Robert Slade's Dictionary of Information Security.
I spy
David Harley reviews Combating Spyware in the Enterprise.
Product review
Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0
John Hawes takes an indepth look at Kaspersky's current home-user offering.
Spam Bulletin
Spam Bulletin - September 2006
Anti-spam news; Present and future phishing techniques (feature)
Poll
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