Virus Bulletin - November 2006


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2006-11-01


Comment

SoftICE, security and the future

'My feeling is that we are unlikely to see an open source replacement for SoftICE any time soon.' Aleksander Czarnowski, Avet.

Aleksander Czarnowski - Avet, Poland

News

News round-up

October's goings on in the AV industry.


Malware prevalence report

September 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.


Analysis

A fortune fox hunter

Kaoru Hayashi has the details of Infostealer.Snifula - a trojan that spies on Firefox.

Kaoru Hayashi - Symantec Security Response, Japan

Opinion

I'm OK, you're not OK

David Harley shares some of his thoughts on public perceptions of the anti-malware industry.

David Harley - Small Blue Green World, UK

Letter

Humour at Symantec's expense

'I believe the humour used in my [VB2006] presentation at the expense of Symantec was justified, but it was unfair to fail to acknowledge the dedication, intellect and ingenuity of the many people Symantec employs.' Randy Abrams, ESET.

Randy Abrams - ESET, USA

Erratum

Corrections to Windows 2000 server comparative review

Updates and corrections to last month's Windows 2000 Server comparative review.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Conference report

Montréal in the fall

The VB conference drew to a close in Montréal last month after three packed days of presentations, panel discussions, meetings, birds of a feather sessions and lively debate, with a fair amount of eating, drinking, music and acrobatics thrown in for good measure. Helen Martin reports on VB2006.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Product review

F-Secure Internet Security 2007

John Hawes tries out F-Secure's latest release: F-Secure Internet Security 2007.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin, UK

Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - November 2006

Anti-spam news; The rise and rise of image-based spam (feature)


 

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