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A fortune fox hunter

Kaoru Hayashi has the details of Infostealer.Snifula - a trojan that spies on Firefox.

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Humour at Symantec's expense

'I believe the humour used in my [VB2006] presentation at the expense of Symantec was justified, but it was unfair to fail to acknowledge the dedication, intellect and ingenuity of the many people Symantec employs.' Randy Abrams, ESET.

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Chamber of horrors

W32/Chamb is the first virus to infect compiled HTML (CHM) files parasitically. Peter Ferrie has the details.

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DDoS: the rise from obscurity

'The cost of a DDoS attack can be substantial – they can last hours, weeks and even months, and are capable of bringing unprotected organizations to a grinding halt.' Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks.

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AISK – a different approach

Mariusz Kozlowski describes the use of his anti-spam filter which is based on pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques.

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VB Comparative: Windows 2000 Server - October 2006

John Hawes serves up another VB comparative - this month, he puts 26 AV products through their paces on Windows 2000 Server and finds 18 of them worthy of a VB 100%.

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Scanning embedded objects in Word XML files

Christoph Alme looks at the embedding of arbitrary objects into Word 2003 XML files and shows why finding them and passing them onto the virus scanner is not such a 'walk in the park' as one might expect.

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AV Testing SANS virus creation

David Harley writes to the director of research at the SANS Institute to express his concerns about Consumer Reports' AV testing methodology.

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Respecting the testing

'Competition for good test results, and so for respect, trust and strong sales, feeds development and innovation.' John Hawes, Virus Bulletin, UK

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War of the words

David Harley reviews Robert Slade's Dictionary of Information Security.

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