One man's spam

'The most troublesome category of messages – that requires the most thought – are those that occupy the awkward grey area between ham and spam.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

Russian state award for Kaspersky

Eugene Kaspersky honored with highest Russian state award.

Trend makes new acquisition

Trend snaps up Third Brigade.

The early bird

The early bird catches the ... discounted registration rate for VB2009.

Archive material

Six AV companies suffer archive processing vulnerabilities.

March 2009

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.

Anti-unpacker tricks – part six

New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This article concentrates on anti-debugging tricks that target plug-ins for the OllyDbg debugger.

Case study: the TDSS rootkit

The TDSS modular downloader is known for its ability to bypass active protection, for its outstanding persistence and its rootkit functions. Alisa Shevchenko presents a detailed case study.

Comodo Internet Security

Comodo's Internet Security suite leaves an overall favourable impression on the VB test team.

Anti-malware industry events

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

Spam Supplement - May 2009

Anti-spam news; Mail authentication with Domain Keys Identified Mail - part two (feature); Anti-spam comparative review May 2009 (comparative review)