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VB100 on Windows Vista Business Edition SP2 x32

This month VB's test team put 35 products through their paces on Windows Vista. After sifting through product freezes, crashes, hangs, logging difficulties and false positives, John Hawes reveals the full results.

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Making a Hash of things

Peter Ferrie details a virus that, while not ground-breaking, is a good lesson in being wary of received wisdom.

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MAAWG takes steps to tackle bots

Working group issues best practices documents for ISPs.

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Apple patches iphone

Patch released for critical SMS vulnerability.

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McAfee buys MX Logic

Vendor splashing out to strengthen SaaS offerings.

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Everybody lies: reaching after the truth while searching for rootkits

Alisa Shevchenko and Dmitry Oleksiuk introduce a new method for retrieving information from a possibly compromised system.

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Kernel mechanics of Rustock

Chandra Prakash provides details of the kernel-mode operations of a recent (March 2009) version of Rustock, concentrating on the changes from its previous version.

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Can you spare a seg?

Peter Ferrie resumes his series of analyses of viruses contained in the EOF-rRlf-DoomRiderz virus zine.

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Early warning approaches to combat typosquatting

Typosquatting takes advantage of the typographical mistakes often made by users when entering a website address into a web browser. Amit Verma discusses a two-step approach to combatting the problem, prioritizing the registration of domain typos and…

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Anti-spam comparative review July 2009

Martijn Grooten (Virus Bulletin)

In VB’s second round of anti-spam comparative testing and certification the all-important question was whether the high achievers from the first test could maintain the same high standards this month. Martijn Grooten has the results of a test in…

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