December issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Dec 1, 2008

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

The December 2008 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:

  • VB100 certification on Windows Vista x64: The final VB100 of the year sees a double whammy of potential pitfalls for comparative participants - the Vista operating system as well as the x64 architecture. John Hawes reveals how the products coped.
  • Public liability insurance for computer intrusion: 'By installing a security suite you not only protect yourself, but you increase the safety of the whole community.' Claudiu Musat, BitDefender.
  • Anti-unpacker tricks - part one: Unpackers have been around for as long as packers themselves, but anti-unpacking tricks are a more recent development and have grown quickly both in number and, in some cases, complexity. Peter Ferrie describes a range of anti-unpacking tricks.
  • Repercussions of dynamic testing: Roel Schouwenberg highlights one potential consequence of the attention currently being devoted to dynamic testing: the possibility that the increased focus on dynamic testing may inspire malware authors to devote more attention to circumventing products' protection capabilities, rather than just their detection abilities.
  • Frame4: in the picture: Frame4 Security Services first became known to VB last month and after making a few enquiries it became clear that the company and, more pertinently, the services it provides have a somewhat cloudy reputation in the AV industry. VB decided to find out a little more about the company and discovered a small team attempting to provide a legitimate service for the fringes of AV and mainstream security industry. Director and co-founder of the company Anthony Aykut tells the story.
  • Fighting phishing at browser level: Alexandru Cosoi describes a method that attempts to deal with the phishing problem at the browser level, by combining both whitelisting and content-based solutions in a web page forgery detector.

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Posted on 1 December 2008 by Virus Bulletin

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