The malware epidemic

'I still believe that education is one of the best defences against any problem.' Eric Kedrosky, Nortel.

Vista security concerns

'Dramatically more secure'... or not?

VB100 news

This month: new platform, new logo.

Microsoft steals market share

Symantec and McAfee see drops in market share.

December 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.

Cain and Abul

As the decline in file-infecting viruses continues, it is perhaps fitting that the newest virus for the 64-bit platform, W64/Abul, is less advanced than the one that came before it. Despite this, though, Abul implements some new features that make it interesting in its own way. Peter Ferrie provides the details.

Defeating IRC bots on the internal network

Fuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue aggressively the development of newer bot modules and the exploitation of code into these bots. Vinoo Thomas and Nitin Jyoti describe how an IRC honeypot can be used to provide an early warning system for botnet activity.

Web server botnets and hosting farms as attack platforms

Web server malware may be used to establish a foothold for the general exploitation of the infected server, or to compromise the server for specific purposes ranging from DDoS to spamming. Some more advanced uses include the construction of botnet armies from these web servers. Gadi Evron and his colleagues describe the problem.

VB2007 Vienna

Calling all speakers.

VB comparative review: Microsoft Windows Vista Business Edition (32-bit)

John Hawes has a busy month with VB's first test of AV products on the long-awaited Microsoft Vista. Find out which products really are ready for Vista.

Spam Bulletin - February 2007

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