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Signature updates vs BCP

Aleksander Czarnowski (AVET Information and Network Security)

Would you ever expect a well established anti-virus company to fail to provide you with signature updates? Would your company's security policy be ready to deal with such a situation?

Inside the Windows Meta File format

The Windows Meta File (WMF) format has received a lot of attention over recent weeks. Peter Ferrie looks at why.

What threats may come

'A serious threat in 2006 will be multi-stage, targeted phishing attacks.' Tomer Honen, Aladdin Knowledge Systems.

The TREC 2005 Spam Filter Evaluation Track

The 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005) took place in November 2005. One of the highlights of the event was the TREC spam filter evaluation effort. Gordon Cormack has all the details.

AVAR 2005: wired to wireless, hacker to cyber-criminal?

Righard Zwienenberg reports on the 8th annual AVAR conference in Tianjin, China.

Ally in our defences

'Information is ... our lifeblood for details about computer threats, impact and activity.' Jeannette Jarvis, The Boeing Company.

Cooperative heuristics

John D. Park attempts to teach an anti-virus scanner to 'think' like a human analyst.

The real reason for the decline of the macro virus

Dr Vesselin Bontchev shares some of his expert knowledge and reveals the real reason for the decline of the macro virus.

Inside the Microsoft script encoder

Peter Ferrie delves inside the Microsoft script encoder.

Windows OneCare Live Beta (Build 0.8.0794.44)

VB usually shies away from the testing of beta products, but the beta release of Microsoft's anti-virus offering OneCare Live proved to be just too tempting. Matt Ham describes his findings when he put OneCare Live under the microscope.