Virus Bulletin - November 2005


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: Matt Ham

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2005-11-01


Comment

Is the boot on the other foot?

It adds insult to injury when the major media outlets misrepresent the facts.

Gabrielle Dowling - Independent author, USA

Virus analysis

Criss-cross

Cross-infector viruses demonstrate the flexibility of certain file formats. While some of these viruses have clearly been written to maximise their replication potential, most seem to have been written simply to show that it can be done. Peter Ferrie takes a look at three of the latest Cross-infector viruses on the scene

Peter Ferrie - Symantec Security Response, USA

Features

IME as a possible keylogger

Using components of Windows multilingual support, it is possible to create a file that will capture keystrokes on a target system while using the OS to protect that file from removal or deletion. Masaki Suenaga explains how an IME could be used as a keylogger.

Masaki Suenaga - Symantec Security Response, Japan

The false positive disaster: Anti-Virus vs Winrar & Co

Andreas Marx reports on his extensive false positive testing of anti-virus software.

Andreas Marx - AV-Test.org, Germany

Letters

In response to review comments

Kaspersky's David Emm comments on the KAV 5.0 writeup from last month's comparative review. Virus Bulletin's Matt Ham responds.

David Emm - Kaspersky Lab, UK

Conference report

In Dublin's fair city

VB2005 was a double record breaker - Virus Bulletin's longest and largest conference to date. We were delighted to welcome well over 360 delegates to The Burlington hotel in Dublin for the debut of the event's new longer format - and, for the second year in a row, the conference was described by delegates as the best VB conference they had attended.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Product review

NOD32 for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64 with centralized management

Matt Ham Reviews the latest offering from Eset - NOD32 for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64 with centralized management

Matt Ham - Virus Bulletin, UK

 

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