October issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Oct 1, 2006

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

The October 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:

DDoS: the rise from obscurity: Danny McPherson affirms that Distributed Denial of Service attacks are the greatest security threat facing ISPs today.

Chamber of horrors: Peter Ferrie has the details of W32/Chamb - the first virus to infect compiled HTML (CHM) files parasitically.

AV testing SANS virus creation: David Harley expresses his concerns about Consumer Reports' AV testing methodology in a letter to the director of the SANS Institute.

Scanning embedded objects in Word XML files: Christoph Alme looks at the embedding of arbitrary objects into Word 2003 XML files and shows why finding them and passing them onto the virus scanner is not such a 'walk in the park' as one might expect.

Comparative review: John Hawes serves up another VB comparative - this month putting 26 AV products through their paces on Windows 2000 Server.

AISK - a different approach : Mariusz Kozlowski describes the use of an anti-spam filter based on pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques.

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Posted on 01 October 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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