May issue of VB published

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   May 1, 2010

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

The May 2010 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:

• VBSpam comparative review: On the first anniversary of the VBSpam comparative review VB's team tested a record 20 full anti-spam solutions, together with one reputation blacklist. The number of VBSpam awards earned also reached a record high of 18. Martijn Grooten has the details.

• The best of...: '[The security industry] has made great strides in attempting to get information across to the general populous in a palatable format.' Helen Martin, Virus Bulletin

• Anti-unpacker tricks - part eight: Last year, a series of articles described some tricks that might become common in the future, along with some countermeasures. Now, the series continues with a look at tricks that are specific to debuggers and emulators.

• TDSS infections - quarterly report: The TDSS/TDL rootkit is the cause of many a headache for anti-virus vendors. Here, Alisa Shevchenko presents a report and analysis of statistics collected from the users of a TDSS removal tool during the first quarter of 2010

• Adapting to TxF: Abhijit Kulkarni and Prakash Jagdale discuss why most real-time anti-virus scanners are ineffective at detecting malware written using the TxF facility and proposes a working solution for the problem.

• Exploit kit explosion - part two: vectors of attack: After introducing a multitude of exploit frameworks used in drive-by browser-based attacks in his last article, this month Mark Davis details the functionality of frameworks, focusing on attack vectors (exploits) and counter-intelligence efforts.

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Posted on 04 May 2010 by Virus Bulletin

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