October issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Oct 1, 2010

The October issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.

The October 2010 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

• VB100 comparative review on Windows Server 2003: This month the VB test team put 38 products through their paces on Windows Server 2003. John Hawes has the details of the VB100 winners and those who failed to make the grade.

• Changing times: 'Ten years ago the idea of malware writing becoming a profit-making industry simply wasn't on the radar.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

• It's just spam, it can't hurt, right?: One nice summer's day, emails started flooding into Gabor Szappanos's mailbox with a spam-like message and a suspicious-looking attachment. The messages promised news on the latest FIFA World Cup scandal, so he took a look. In fact, the messages were not only distributing spam, but also members of the Bredolab family, and were doing so using the infamous Gumblar distribution architecture. Gabor describes the working of the attack.

• Rooting about in TDSS: During the course of their research into the TDSS rootkit, Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov developed a universal utility for dumping the rootkit's hidden file system. They provide the details.

• Anti-unpacker tricks: part 13: 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 the IDA plug-in, IDA Stealth.

• On the relevance of spam feeds: Claudiu Musat and George Petre explain why spam feeds matter in the anti-spam field and discuss the importance of effective spam-gathering methods.

• Things to come: New anti-malware companies and products seem to be springing up with increasing frequency at the moment, many reworking existing detection engines into new forms, adding new functions, as well as several that are working on their own detection technology, aiming to take on the entrenched big names at their own game. John Hawes take a quick look at a few of the up-and-coming products which he expects to see taking part in the VB100 comparatives in the near future.

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Posted on 11 October 2010 by Virus Bulletin

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