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VB100 on Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 x32

This month VB's test team put 35 products through their paces on Windows Vista. After sifting through product freezes, crashes, hangs, logging difficulties and false positives, John Hawes reveals the full results.

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Making a Hash of things

Peter Ferrie details a virus that, while not ground-breaking, is a good lesson in being wary of received wisdom.

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MAAWG takes steps to tackle bots

Working group issues best practices documents for ISPs.

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Apple patches iphone

Patch released for critical SMS vulnerability.

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McAfee buys MX Logic

Vendor splashing out to strengthen SaaS offerings.

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Everybody lies: reaching after the truth while searching for rootkits

Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk introduce a new method for retrieving information from a possibly compromised system.

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Norman Network Protection Appliance

The security appliance market seems to have become a boom area of late, with just about every security firm worth its salt introducing an appliance solution to provide its services in a single package. This month VB's test team look at a dedicated…

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The challenges of collecting and monitoring URLs that point to malware

Since 2005, the Malware Patrol Project has been cataloguing URLs used in phishing scams and distributing block lists for the most popular proxies and anti-spam systems. André D. Corrêa describes the challenges of collecting and monitoring malicious…

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Same malware, different code

Pierre-Marc Bureau (ESET)

'The intent is the same, the information displayed to the user is the same, and the extorted money probably ends up in the same pocket.' Pierre-Marc Bureau, Eset.

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Spam away

VB says goodbye to the Spam Supplement.

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