June issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on Jun 1, 2007

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

The June 2007 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF format.

Some of the things this month's issue has in store are:

AV industry commments on anti-malware testing: 'Agreement was virtually unanimous that the WildList is no longer useful as a metric of the ability of a product to protect users' Randy Abrams, Eset.

Attacks on iPod: Péter Ször describes Podloso, the iPod Linux virus, and looks at other possible attacks on the iPod.

Let's kick some bot!: Martin Overton reviews Syngress's latest security title: 'Botnets - the killer web app'.

Windows XP comparative review: For the latest round of VB100 certification testing, VB put 37 products through their paces on Windows XP SP2.

The scourge of blog spam: Jessica Baumgart, an active blogger since April 2003, has contributed to a variety of weblogs on at least seven different platforms, helps lead a support group for bloggers, and eagerly deletes spam. In this article she describes the lesser-known, but increasing problem of blog spam.

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Posted on 02 June 2007 by Virus Bulletin

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