'The use of trojans to gather evidence has previously been proposed by law enforcers in Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA ... However, there is something of an obstacle for all magic lantern projects: the anti-malware industry has the habit of developing solutions that detect malicious or unwanted activity.’ Righard Zwienenberg, Norman.
VB has revealed the conference programme for VB2007, Vienna.
Anti-spyware legislation presented in US House of Representatives for third time.
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.
The Wanuk worm, written for the Solaris platform, was unusual in that its author paid a lot of attention to detail with his creation, and even included error checks at each step - however, at least one bug slipped through. Costin Ionescu has the full details.
What lies ahead for anti-virus testing programmes with the introduction of new protection schemes that move away from scanner-based detection? Richard Ford and Attila Ondi look to the future of AV testing.
The recent Julie Amero court case has raised a number of concerns regarding computer security, investigation and liability. Who is responsible when a person uses a computer that is infected with malicious software? Can the user be liable even when unaware of the infestation? Can the user be liable even if they do not own or control the computer? Patrick Knight considers what is needed to achieve justice in the digital age.
In this month's VB100 test we put 16 AV products through their paces on SUSE Linux. John Hawes has the details of how each of them fared.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
Anti-spam news; An African A-F-F-air... (feature)