Virus Bulletin issue archive
The Bulletin is an indispensable source of reference for anyone concerned with the prevention, detection and removal of computer threats, including but not limited to malware and spam.
Between 1989 and 2014, VB published the monthly, subscriber-based Virus Bulletin magazine. The Bulletin is a continuation of that publication, but with more frequent releases - the Bulletin is available free of charge and requires no registration.
Virus Bulletin - December 2007
A year of threats across several technologies (comment); VB2008 Ottawa (call for papers); Something smells fishy (analysis); Exploring the evolutionary patterns of Tibs-packed executables (feature); Exepacker blacklisting part 2 (feature); Blow up your video (feature); Windows 2000 Professional (comparative review)
Virus Bulletin - November 2007
Search engines in research and vulnerability assessment (comment); Application whitelisting (letter); Spam from the kernel (analysis); Anonymous proxies: the threat to corporate security enforcement (feature); Malware storms: a global climate change (feature); Birds of a feather (book review); ESET Smart Security (product review)
Virus Bulletin - October 2007
Gateway scanning is not enough! (comment); Oh, Vienna! (conference report); The need for an in-house SMTP honeypot (feature); OpenOffice security and viral risk - part two (technical feature); Exepacker blacklisting (feature)
Virus Bulletin - September 2007
AV is alive and well (comment); The life cycle of bots (feature); Friendly whitelisting and other innovations: a response (opinion); Viva Las Vegas! (conference report); OpenOffice security and viral risk (technical feature); BitDefender Total Security 2008 (product review)
Virus Bulletin - August 2007
Are you invisible? (comment); The dark side of whitelisting (opinion); VB2007 call for last-minute papers; Profiling binaries for instrumentation (feature); Windows Vista x64 Business Edition (comparative review)
Virus Bulletin - July 2007
The wild WildList (comment); Lions and Tigraas (virus analysis); Vilo: a shield in the malware variation battle (feature); HaTeMaiL email! (feature); Avira Premium Security Suite (product review)
Virus Bulletin - June 2007
AV industry comments on anti-malware testing (comment); Attacks on iPod (virus analysis); Let's kick some bot! (book review); Windows XP (comparative review)
Virus Bulletin - May 2007
Securing the Web 2.0 (comment); ANI-hilate this week (analysis); Beyond Virtu(e) and evil (analysis); Nirbot: targeted attacks get personal (analysis); Covert zombie ops (feature); Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 (product review)
Virus Bulletin - April 2007
Magical lights shine on you (comment); Wormhole attacks Solaris station (analysis); Testing times ahead? (feature); (In)justice in the digital age (feature); SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (comparative review)
Virus Bulletin - March 2007
Darknet monitoring (comment); Hidan and dangerous (analysis); Peerbot: catch me if you can (feature); Real-world testing of email anti-virus solutions (feature); The strange case of Julie Amero (letter); AEC TrustPort Workstation (product review)
Virus Bulletin - February 2007
The malware epidemic (comment); Cain and Abul (analysis); Defeating IRC bots on the internal network (feature); Web server botnets and hosting farms as attack platforms (feature); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers); Windows Vista (comparative review)
Virus Bulletin - January 2007
Déjà vu all over again (comment); Do the macarena (analysis); The great prepender: W32/Nubys-A (analysis); The real motive behind Stration (feature); From immunology to heuristics (insight); VB2007 Vienna (call for papers); Sophos Enterprise Security (product review)
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