November issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Nov 1, 2006

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

The November 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:

SoftICE, security and the future: Aleksander Czarnowski doesn't think we are likely to see an open source replacement for discontinued debugging tool SoftICE any time soon.

A fortune fox hunter: Kaoru Hayashi has the details of Infostealer.Snifula - a trojan that spies on Firefox.

I'm OK, you're not OK: David Harley shares some of his thoughts on public perceptions of the anti-malware industry.

Montréal in the fall: The VB conference drew to a close in Montréal last month after three packed days of presentations, panel discussions, meetings, birds of a feather sessions and lively debate, with a fair amount of eating, drinking, music and acrobatics thrown in for good measure. Helen Martin reports on VB2006.

Product review: John Hawes gets to grips with F-Secure's latest release F-Secure Internet Security 2007.

The rise and rise of image-based spam: John Graham-Cumming charts the rise of image spam.

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Posted on 01 November 2006 by Virus Bulletin

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