Virus Bulletin - June 2010


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2010-06-01


Comment

PWN2KILL, EICAR and AV: scientific and pragmatic research

‘Crossing over to the Dark Side of the customer/vendor divide has made me increasingly aware of just how bad "bad" can be.’ David Harley, ESET

David Harley - ESET, UK

News

SonicWALL in latest acquisition

The latest in a flurry of activity in acquisitions and mergers in the security field.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Erratum: VBSpam comparative review May 2010

Correction to last month's VBSpam figures.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

VB2010 early birds

Early bird registration rates for VB2010 available until 15 June.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

April 2010

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.


Technical feature

Anti-unpacker tricks – part nine

Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. Now, the series continues with a look at tricks that are specific to debuggers and emulators.

Peter Ferrie - Microsoft, USA

Feature

What’s the deal with sender authentication? Part 1

Sender authentication is a hot topic in the world of email. It has a number of uses and a number of suggested uses. Which ones work in real life? Which ones don’t quite measure up? Can we use authentication to mitigate spoofing? Can we use it to guarantee authenticity? And how do we authenticate email, anyway? Terry Zink provides the answers to these questions and more.

Terry Zink - Microsoft, USA

Conference report

EICAR 2010: rainy days in Paris

Eddy Willems reports on the highlights of the 19th EICAR conference in a soggy Paris.

Eddy Willems - G Data Software and EICAR, Belgium

Comparative review

VB100 – Windows Server 2008 R2

VB's lab team battled with inconsistencies and unreliable behaviours in this month's VB100 test, but eventually managed to pull together some meaningful results. John Hawes names and shames the badly behaved products and reveals this month's VB100 winners.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

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


 

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