Co-operation is the only way

'An essential force in the fight against online crime is that of law enforcement.' Martijn Grooten, Virus Bulletin.

Job cuts in the offing at Symantec

Cutbacks in effort to keep spending under control.

Plug pulled on dodgy registrar?

ICANN plans to terminate accreditation of registrar favoured by cyber crooks.

September 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.

XXX racted

Peter Ferrie reaches the last in the collection of viruses created by the writer ‘fakemnded’ in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

Your filters are bypassed: Rustock.C in the kernel

Chandra Prakash describes the step-by-step operational characteristics of Rustock.C in kernel mode from its startup to the point at which its spambot code (botdll) is activated in user mode.

Family matters

'As the internet is increasingly used for good and evil purposes, how do you know who to trust?' asks Henk van Roest.

The Ottawa rules

October 2008 saw the annual three-day work-rest-and-play marathon (without so much of the rest) that is the VB conference. A slowly recovering Helen Martin reports on VB2008.

DriveSentry Desktop 3.1/3.2 & GoAnywhere 1.0.2/2.0

John Hawes looks at two products from DriveSentry - part of a growing new breed of security products, which focus less on the traditional arts of the anti-malware world, and aim instead to protect systems by preventing unauthorized software from performing any potentially dangerous activity.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Supplement - November 2008

Anti-spam news; The problem of backscatter - part 3 (feature)