Does the punishment fit the crime?

'Once bitten does not, it seems, make twice shy for spammers.’ Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin.

Advance diary dates: VB2009

VB2009 dates and location announced.

McAfee sued for web warnings

Disgruntled website owners call SiteAdvisor labelling into question.

July 2008

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.

Prophet and loss

Peter Ferrie begins a series of analyses of viruses contained in the long-delayed (and probably last of its kind) EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

All your MP3s are belong to us

Christoph Alme and his colleagues walk through the complete attack process of the Win32.ASF-Hijacker.A trojan, which has two different sets of victims: those affected by the trojan itself and those affected by media files altered by the trojan.

VB2008 Ottawa – Call for last-minute papers

VB seeks submissions for last-minute tech 'turbo' talks at VB2008 in Ottawa.

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Paul Baccas summarises the good, the bad and the ugly within Jakobsson and Ramzan's 'Crimeware: Understanding New Attacks and Defenses'.

Malware teaching considered harmful?

Richard Ford and William Allen, both teachers of malware courses at Florida Institute of Technology, present their views on the teaching of virus writing as part of security courses.

Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2008

Having started up focusing on unwanted tracking behaviour, Lavasoft's Ad-Aware has gradually branched out to cover adware, spyware and now with the integration of a full anti-malware engine, the gamut of trojans, viruses and worms, with a selection of extras thrown in for good measure. John Hawes reports on how the product has developed to face the multi-pronged malware dangers of the modern age.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Supplement - September 2008

Anti-spam news; The problem of backscatter - part 1 (feature)