September issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Sep 1, 2006

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

The September 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:

• Respecting the testing: VB's John Hawes comments on the recent Consumer Reports virus-writing debacle and describes how good AV testing should be done.

• Gatt got your tongue?: IDA is one of the most popular tools for anti-virus researchers. Now, its IDC scripting language has become the latest target for virus writers. Peter Ferrie has the details of W32/Gatt.

• Raising the bar: Rustock and advances in rootkits: Backdoor.Rustock.A is an advanced rootkit that could be considered the first-born of a next generation of stealth malware. Elia Florio and Prashant Pathak reveal the details.

• The world of botnets: Dr Alan Solomon and Gadi Evron provide an overview of the world of botnets.

• Reading matter: David Harley gives his opinion on whether Robert Slade's Dictionary of Information Security and Piccard et al.'s Combating Spyware in the Enterprise are worthy of a place on your bookshelf.

• Product review: Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0: John Hawes delves deep into Kaspersky's current home user offering.

• Present and future phishing techniques: Sorin Mustaca reveals some of the ways in which phishers are currently managing to relieve users of their confidential information.

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Posted on 01 September 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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