Gateway scanning is not enough!

'Why is the number of malicious attachments decreasing - and why shouldn't I be happy about it?' Paul Dickens, Institute of Physics Publishing.

Wot, no comparative?

VB100 Netware comparative delayed.

Alarm over possible PDF flaw

Vulnerability announcement hyped to disaster level.

Trivia

Panda reveals country with lowest level of infected PCs.

August 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.

Oh, Vienna!

Helen Martin reports on three packed days of presentations, networking, a little bit of gambling and a lot of fun at VB2007 in Vienna.

The need for an in-house SMTP honeypot

By blocking port 25 at the firewall, an organization can prevent a mass-mailer from spreading. However, by blindly blocking outgoing SMTP traffic, valuable data is lost on threats that use port 25. Vinoo Thomas and Nitin Jyoti discuss the benefits of redirecting vs. blocking internal SMTP traffic.

OpenOffice security and viral risk – part two

In the conclusion of his two-part article presenting an up-to-date evaluation of the security of OpenOffice, Eric Filiol looks at security issues in OpenOffice integrity management and draws conclusions about the overall security of OpenOffice.

Exepacker blacklisting

The blacklisting of exepackers by AV products is a controversial subject with opinions among the AV community varying widely. Gabor Szappanos takes a balanced view and discusses the pros and cons of exepacker detection.

VB comparative review: Novell NetWare 6.5

John Hawes puts 10 anti-malware products through their paces on Novell NetWare 6.5.

The comparative review is also available as a standalone PDF.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Bulletin - October 2007

Anti-spam news; Boosting email anti-spam filters using an ensemble of SVM classifiers (feature)