Fighting malware and spam
2012-01-19
Abstract
This month's VBSpam test saw 22 products on the test bench, 20 of which were full solutions and the other two were partial solutions (DNS blacklists). All of the full solutions achieved a VBSpam award but their performance differed greatly in the details. Martijn Grooten reveals more.
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