May issue of VB published

Posted by Virus Bulletin on May 1, 2011

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

The May 2011 issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to browse online or download in PDF or PRC (Kindle) format.

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

VBSpam comparative review: The 13th VBSpam test didn't prove unlucky for any of the participating products, with all 19 entrants receiving a VBSpam award. Martijn Grooten presents the detailed figures that distinguish the good products from the really good ones, and takes a look at some additional features of the products on test.

A 'defence triangle': '... with the facts laid bare, the cross-border cyber enforcement issues between nations will be discussed differently.' Wout de Natris, De Natris Consult

Putting Trojan.Hashish out to grass: Win32/Unruy.AD conceals its code at a low level and infects the Master Boot Record so that it will be loaded before the operating system (and any security solutions installed by the user) have a chance to kick in. Robert Lipovsky and Peter Hlavaty provide all the details.

Flibi: evolution: The Flibi virus demonstrated that a virus can carry its own 'genetic code', and if the building blocks of that code are mutated in some way, then interesting behaviours can arise. In this article Peter Ferrie demonstrates how some of Flibi's instructions might be removed by replacing them with functionally equivalent code sequences.

Zero Day: a novel: VB usually reserves book reviews for factual books dedicated to the subject of information security. This month, however, we break away from tradition to review a piece of fiction written by renowned Windows systems internals expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich.

Agnitum Outpost Security Suite Free: Free anti-virus continues to be all the rage, with more and more firms jumping on the bandwagon. John Hawes takes a look at one of the latest offerings: the free version of Agnitum's Outpost Security Suite, and finds that you can get quite a lot for nothing these days.

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Posted on 04 May 2011 by Virus Bulletin

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