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The Locksky email worm first appeared in October 2005. Its aim is to install proxies on victims' machines, which can then be sold. Ferenc Laszlo Nagy has the details.
Read moreMetamorphic viruses have posed a challenge for the anti-virus industry for quite some time. This article focuses on a number of metamorphic techniques and highlights different methods for detecting them.
Read moreDynamic translation is a technique that can be used instead of emulation for decrypting complex malware. Adrian Stepan describes how the technique can also be used to perform generic unpacking.
Read moreVB's product reviewer Matt Ham describes some changes to the test sets used for VB's comparative reviews.
Read moreSteen Pedersen explains how the perimeter defence layer can be enhanced with the use of a web filter.
Read moreAndrej Bratko describes a spam filtering technique that treats email as a sequence of characters, rather than a collection of words.
Read moreThe Windows Meta File (WMF) format has received a lot of attention over recent weeks. Peter Ferrie looks at why.
Read more'A serious threat in 2006 will be multi-stage, targeted phishing attacks.' Tomer Honen, Aladdin Knowledge Systems.
Read moreMatt Ham fully expected a bumper harvest of VB 100% awards this month, simply due to the familiarity of the Windows NT platform to the developers.
Read moreDan Kaminsky takes a long hard look at the reaction (or lack thereof) of the AV industry to the Sony rootkit incident and assesses the consequences.
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