Virus Bulletin - April 2009


Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

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

2009-04-01


Comment

Flooding the cloud

'An even better solution is to be proactive in the cloud.’ Luis Corrons, Panda Security

Luis Corrons - Panda Security, Spain

News

Ghostly goings on

Researchers uncover significant cyber espionage network.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Internet fraud complaints rise

Internet fraud complaints registered in 2008 rise by 33%.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Malware prevalence report

February 2009

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 five

New anti-unpacking tricks continue to be developed as the older ones are constantly being defeated. In this series of articles Peter Ferrie describes some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. This month's article concentrates on anti‑debugging tricks that target the OllyDbg debugger.

Peter Ferrie - Microsoft, USA

Malware analyses

Your PC is infected

Rogue anti-malware applications have been around for several years, conning and causing confusion among users as well as posing problems for anti‑malware vendors. Gabor Szappanos takes a look at a piece of anti‑virus scamware.

Gabor Szappanos - VirusBuster, Hungary

The new iBotnet

Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli take a detailed look at what appears to be the first real attempt to create a Mac botnet.

Mario Ballano Barcena - Symantec, Ireland & Alfredo Pesoli -

Comparative review

VB100 April 2009 - Windows XP SP3

An impressive range of 39 products from 34 different vendors were submitted for the Windows XP comparative review, with the regular well-known brands accompanied by an interesting set of less well-known names and a handful of newcomers. This month also saw the first major set of results from VB's new RAP tests putting products' reactive and proactive detection abilities to the test. John Hawes has all the details.

John Hawes - Virus Bulletin

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

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


Spam Bulletin

Spam Supplement - April 2009

Anti-spam news; Mail authentication with Domain Keys Identified Mail - part one (feature)


 

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