Fighting malware and spam
2007-09-01
Abstract
AV is alive and well (comment); The life cycle of bots (feature); Friendly whitelisting and other innovations: a response (opinion); Viva Las Vegas! (conference report); OpenOffice security and viral risk (technical feature); BitDefender Total Security 2008 (product review)
Comment
AV is alive and well
'Both the disease and the cure now differ significantly from their original forms.' David Emm, Kaspersky Lab.
News
Unsafe computing in abundance
Reports and statistics on unsafe computing.
Malware prevalence report
July 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.
Feature
The life cycle of bots
Having spent a lot of time thoroughly analysing how bots work – studying the overall bot ‘ecosystem’ as well as the individual files, Luis Corrons has noted that they've achieved a certain level of autonomy, in such a way that they almost have a life of their own. We are still a little way from Skynet, but it is only a matter of time...
Opinion
Friendly whitelisting and other innovations: a response
Chief Security Officer for Bit9, Ian Poynter continues the conversation started last month by Dr Vesselin Bontchev about whitelisting as an endpoint security technology, and explores some of the questions he raised.
Conference report
Viva Las Vegas!
VB sent roving reporters (aka anti-virus miscreants) Andrew Lee and David Perry to the Nevada desert for five days of non-stop hardcore computer security at the Black Hat Briefings and hacker convention DEFCON 15. Andrew Lee reports on Black Hat, and David Perry rounds up the fun and games (and serious business) at DEFCON.
Technical feature
OpenOffice security and viral risk – part one
Eric Filiol and Jean-Paul Fizaine report on the security weaknesses of the OpenOffice suite.
Product review
BitDefender Total Security 2008
John Hawes takes an in-depth look at BitDefender's latest home-user offering, BitDefender Total Security 2008.
Calendar
Anti-malware industry events
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.
Spam Bulletin
Spam Bulletin - September 2007
Anti-spam news; Fighting spam using tar pits (feature)
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