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Congrats

VB congratulates the winner of a hat trick of blogging awards.

Twinkle, twinkle little star

Peter Ferrie likens W32/Satevis to a viral version of a mix tape - a virus that is essentially made up of a collection of routines taken from other viruses.

Prescription medicine

W32/Zekneol appears to be a complicated virus, but in his full analysis Peter Ferrie shows that looks can be deceiving.

Anti-spam comparative review

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

This month’s anti-spam comparative review saw another increase in the field of competitors with 14 products taking their place on the test bench. Martijn Grooten has all the details.

Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials, the long-awaited replacement for the Windows Live OneCare package, is finally with us. VB's test team put Microsoft's new free home-user package through its paces, declaring it to be pretty decent overall.

Collaborative spam filtering with the hashing trick

Josh Attenberg and colleagues describe the hashing trick as an effective method for collaborative spam filtering.

Happy holidays: mobile maliciousness

Ken Dunham (iSIGHT Partners)

'Social engineering threats are a notable concern for mobile device users and are always escalated during the holiday period.' Ken Dunham, iSIGHT Partners.

Data tainting for malware analysis – part two

In this three-part series Florent Marceau studies the use and advantages of full virtualization in the security field. Following an introduction to full virtualization in part one, this part looks at the limitations of the technology.

Detecting bootkits

Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk decided to find out whether anti-virus software has learned to cope successfully with Mebroot and MBR infectors in general a few years after the first appearance of this type of malware.

Nigeria takes steps to clean up its act

Nigerian government clamps down on advance fee fraud.