A year of threats across several technologies

'The main trend I have observed this year has been the spread of malware activity across several forms of technology and applications.' Eddy Willems.

Yuletide greetings

Festive wishes.

Vista fails to reassure web users

50% of users don't believe Vista has made the Internet any safer.

Botnets roasting on an open fire

FBI reports successes of operation Bot Roast; McAfee predicts cyber espionage for 2008.

October 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.

VB2008 Ottawa

Calling all speakers.

Something smells fishy

The author of MSIL/Yakizake claimed that ‘very few implementations of multi-platform malware exist up until now'. Peter Ferrie lists a dozen multi-platform viruses and explains why Yakizake does not qualify for the category.

Exploring the evolutionary patterns of Tibs-packed executables

Rachit Mathur and Aditya Kapoor present an analysis of the techniques used by the Tibs packer and describes the reasons for its prolonged effectiveness.

Exepacker blacklisting part 2

In the second installment of this three-part series on exepacker blacklisting, Robert Neumann provides a more detailed look at the different types of blacklisting and describes the tools that are available for analysis.

Blow up your video

These days we are used to seeing interactive multimedia content on websites - but unfortunately it is possible for these file formats to contain more than one might expect. Christoph Alme and Dennis Elser present a round-up of recent multimedia vulnerabilities.

VB comparative review: Windows 2000 Professional

Fewer than half the products submitted for this VB100 review on Windows 2000 made the grade - largely thanks to some pesky polymorphic file infectors and a rash of false positives. John Hawes has all the details.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Bulletin - December 2007

Anti-spam news; Spam and the digital divide (feature)