Virus Bulletin - June 2007

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2007-06-01

Abstract

AV industry comments on anti-malware testing (comment); Attacks on iPod (virus analysis); Let's kick some bot! (book review); Windows XP (comparative review)


Comment

AV industry commments on anti-malware testing

'Agreement was virtually unanimous that the WildList is no longer useful as a metric of the ability of a product to protect users' Randy Abrams, Eset.

Randy Abrams - Eset, USA


News

Vulnerabilities galore

May was a month of flaw revelations, with vulnerabilities being disclosed in the products of no fewer than nine security vendors.



Malware prevalence report

April 2007

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

Attacks on iPod

Péter Ször describes Podloso, the iPod Linux virus, and looks at other possible attacks on the iPod.

Péter Ször - Symantec Security Response, USA


Book review

Let’s kick some bot!

Martin Overton reviews Syngress's latest security title: 'Botnets - the killer web app'.

Martin Overton - Independent researcher, UK


Comparative review

VB comparative review: Windows XP SP2

A bumper crop of 37 products were submitted for this month's VB100 comparative review on Windows XP. John Hawes has the details.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin


Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.



Spam Bulletin

Spam Bulletin - June 2007

Anti-spam news; The scourge of blog spam (feature)




Poll

Do you use the same password(s) across multiple websites?
I use the same password for all sites
I have a number of passwords but use the same for some sites
I use a different password for each site
I don't sign up to any sites that require a password

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