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Star what?

A macro virus for StarOffice, or merely an intended? Vesselin Bontchev sets the record straight.

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Malicious Yahooligans

Making its appearance in June 2006, JS.Yamanner@m was the first webmail worm. Eric Chien has all the details.

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EU Spam Symposium 2006

Sorin Mustaca reports on the inaugural EU Spam Symposium.

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Blinding POPFile via a single-word attack

Olivier Guillion and John Graham-Cumming describe how it is possible to 'blind' the POPFile spam filter with a single-word attack.

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Hamfighting - how acceptable are false positives?

David Harley ponders the acceptability of false positives in the fight against spam.

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Phish fingering

David Harley reviews Lance James's new book: Phishing Exposed.

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Less is more

Richard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology)

'In a perfect world, it would be nice to have no updates at all – more isn’t better.' Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

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Malware, the new driver of PC sales

With a lack of killer applications to spur the market, is the PC industry developing an unhealthy reliance on malicious software? Brian McWilliams presents his thoughts.

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Tumours and polips

The W32/Polip virus caught the AV industry by surprise recently – we didn't expect to see a parasitic virus, and we certainly didn't expect to see anything of such apparent complexity. However, looks can be deceiving. Peter Ferrie reveals all.

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Fixing 'the virus problem'?

Andrew Lee (ESET)

'Will the new security features in Windows Vista fix the virus problem?' was the question that nearly knocked Andrew Lee off his seat in surprise. Once he had recovered his composure, he decided to provide a more detailed answer than the simple,…

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