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Since 1989, Virus Bulletin has been dedicated to providing PC users with a regular source of uninfluenced, unbiased, independent intelligence about computer malware, its prevention, detection and removal, and how to recover programs and data following an attack. The aim of the magazine is to arm users with all the information they need to stay current with the latest developments in the anti-malware field.
Virus Bulletin - March 2010
Why flash web pages are like collateralized debt obligations (comment); Doin' the eagle rock (malware analysis); BackDoor.Tdss.565 and its modifications (aka TDL3) (malware analysis); The 26C3 Congress of the Chaos Computer Club (conference report); Memory analysis - examples (tutorial); CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2010 (product review); VBSpam comparative review (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - February 2010
SSL certificate warnings - nuisance or value? (comment); Cut the Cutwail (malware analysis); Data tainting for malware analysis - part three (feature); Introduction to advanced memory analysis (tutorial); Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - January 2010
The web of darkness (comment); It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Fooperman (malware analysis); Social science meets computer science (book review); AMTSOlutely fabulous (spotlight); The top ten spam, malware and e-security stories of 2009 (feature); Alwil avast! 5 (product review); VBSpam comparative review (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - December 2009
Cybersecurity awareness for the next generation (comment); Twinkle, twinkle little star (malware analysis); Behavioural analysis of Flash files (tutorial); Calling all speakers: VB2010 Vancouver (call for papers); Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail users hacked, but how? (feature); VB100 on Windows 7 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - November 2009
Happy holidays: mobile maliciousness (comment); Prescription medicine (malware analysis); Data tainting for malware analysis - part two (feature); Detecting bootkits (feature); Collaborative spam filtering with the hashing trick (feature); Microsoft Security Essentials (product review); Anti-spam comparative review (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - October 2009
Social networking meets social engineering (comment); Flying solo (malware analysis); Geneva convention (conference report); 7th German Anti Spam Summit (conference report); Anti-phishing landing page: turning a 404 into a teachable moment (feature); An update on spamming botnets: are we losing the war? (feature); Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition SP2 x86 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (subscribers only)
Virus Bulletin - September 2009
How clean is clean? (comment); Heads or tails? (malware analysis); Data tainting for malware analysis - part one (feature); Black Hat 2009 conference report (conference report); G Data Total Security 2010 (product review); Anti-spam comparative review September 2009 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
Virus Bulletin - August 2009
Why is security (still) a Utopia? (comment); Making a Hash of things (malware analysis); Everybody lies: reaching after the truth while searching for rootkits (feature); Automated clustering of unknown executables (feature); Reflections on CEAS 2009 (conference report); VB100 on Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 x32 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
Virus Bulletin - July 2009
Same malware, different code (comment); Can you spare a seg? (malware analysis); Kernel mechanics of Rustock (malware analysis); Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting (feature); The challenges of collecting and monitoring URLs that point to malware (feature); Norman Network Protection Appliance (product review); Anti-spam comparative review July 2009 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
Virus Bulletin - June 2009
Malware without a name is still malware (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part seven (technical feature); CARO mio, AMTSO mon amour (conference report); EICAR 2009 in a nutshell: ich bin ein EICARer (conference report); VB100 on Windows Server 2003 (comparative review)view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
Virus Bulletin - May 2009
One man's spam (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part six (technical feature); Case study: the TDSS rootkit (feature); Comodo Internet Security (product review)view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
Virus Bulletin - April 2009
Flooding the cloud (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part five (technical feature); Your PC is infected (malware analysis); The new iBotnet (malware analysis); VB100 on Windows XP SP3 (comparative review);view as HTML | PDF (registered users only)
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