November issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Nov 1, 2009

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

The November 2009 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:

• Product review: Microsoft Security Essentials: Microsoft Security Essentials, the long-awaited replacement for the Windows Live OneCare package, is finally with us. VB's test team put Microsoft's new free home-user package through its paces, declaring it to be pretty decent overall.

• VBSpam comparative review: This month's anti-spam comparative review saw another increase in the field of competitors with 14 products taking their place on the test bench. Martijn Grooten has all the details.

• Happy holidays: mobile maliciousness: 'Social engineering threats are a notable concern for mobile device users and are always escalated during the holiday period.' Ken Dunham, iSIGHT Partners.

• Prescription medicine: W32/Zekneol appears to be a complicated virus, but in his full analysis Peter Ferrie shows that looks can be deceiving.

• Data tainting for malware analysis - part two: Continuing the three-part series on the use and advantages of full virtualization in the security field, Florent Marceau looks at the limitations of the technology.

• Detecting bootkits: Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk decided to find out whether anti-virus software has learned to cope successfully with Mebroot and MBR infectors in general a few years after the first appearance of this type of malware.

• Collaborative spam filtering with the hashing trick: Josh Attenberg and colleagues describe the hashing trick as an effective method for collaborative spam filtering.

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Posted on 02 November 2009 by Virus Bulletin

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