How clean is clean?

'If ever there was an argument to be made against a whitelisting-only approach to security, this is it.' Roel Schouwenberg, Kaspersky Lab.

MAAWG takes steps to tackle bots

Working group issues best practices documents for ISPs.

Apple patches iphone

Patch released for critical SMS vulnerability.

July 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.

Heads or tails?

Peter Ferrie reports on a virus that uses an interesting variation on cavity infection.

Data tainting for malware analysis – part one

The increased use of virtualization technologies presents new angles for new types of attack. Florent Marceau presents a different view of this technical evolution in order to take advantage of full virtualization with the aim of helping malware researchers.

Black Hat 2009 conference report

Andrew Lee reports from Caesar's Palace on the mammoth 15-track Black Hat conference.

G Data Total Security 2010

VB's test team decided to test drive G Data's latest complete suite product and were thoroughly impressed with the breadth and quality of the product.

Anti-spam comparative review September 2009

The latest round of VBSpam testing and certification sees an increase in the field of competitors for the third time in a row. This month, 12 products line up on the test bench. Martijn Grooten has the details.

Anti-malware industry events

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