What is anti-virus software?

'As security companies we must provide multiple layers of defence to protect our users properly.' Robert Sandilands, Authentium.

Festive greetings

Yuletide wishes.

In the picture?

Remember VB94?

Stocking filler

Collection of 419 baiting tales.

October 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.

Leaps and bounds

Peter Ferrie describes a virus that comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and which uses an entrypoint obscuring technique that no one has used before: W32/Bounds and W64/Bounds!AMD64.

What next? Trojan.Linkoptimizer

The Linkoptimizer trojan raised alarms in the AV industry signalling that there are other ingenious ways besides advanced rootkits to make the lives of both users and security providers difficult. Mircea Ciubotariu has the full details of Trojan.Linkoptmizer.

Trojan crimeware - is it worth all the fuss?

Jeffrey Aboud investigates the buzz surrounding trojan crimeware.

VB Comparative: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

A diverse range of products was submitted for this month’s 64-bit comparative review. John Hawes has the details of how they all fared.

VB2007 Vienna

Calling all speakers.

Spam Bulletin - December 2006

Anti-spam news; The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam (feature)