July issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Jul 1, 2006

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

The July 2006 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

Just a few of the things this month's issue has in store are:

Tumours and polips: The W32/Polip virus caught the AV industry by surprise recently. Peter Ferrie reveals all.

Less is more: Richard Ford reflects on whether the number of updates an AV vendor ships is really something to boast about.

Malware, the new driver of PC sales: With a lack of killer applications to spur the market, is the PC industry developing an unhealthy reliance on malicious software? Brian McWilliams presents his thoughts.

Fixing 'the virus problem'?:'Will the new security features in Windows Vista fix the virus problem?' was the question that nearly knocked Andrew Lee off his seat in surprise. Here, he provides a more detailed answer than the simple, rather obvious 'no'.

Hamfighting: David Harley asks 'how acceptable are false positives?'

Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack: Olivier Guillion and John Graham-Cumming describe how it is possible to 'blind' the POPFile spam filter with a single-word attack.

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Posted on 01 July 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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