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Category Archives: Virus Research/white papers
How viruses fight back?
“The GoldBug virus has extensive anti-anti-virus routines. It can install itself while several resident anti-virus monitors are running. It will prohibit most popular anti-virus programs from running, and will also by-pass several integrity checking programs” -from the original source code … Continue reading
The lowdown on antivirus testing, part 2
In my previous newsletter, which summarized a lecture delivered by Sarah Gordon, a former member of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Fraser Howard of the _Virus Bulletin_, I discussed the pros and cons of antivirus testing. Here … Continue reading
The low down on antivirus testing,part 1
At the 23rd National Information Systems Security Conference held last October, Sarah Gordon, who was then a member of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Fraser Howard, of the _Virus Bulletin_, presented a thought-provoking overview of antivirus software … Continue reading
Posted in Antivirus Article, Virus Research/white papers
Tagged antivirus software, antivirus software testing, AVP, AVP testing, ICSA, ICSA Labs, National Information, Security Conference, Systems Security, Virus Test Center, WCL, Westcoast Publishing's Westcoast Labs, WildList Organization
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What is an antivirus researcher?
People ask me all the time “what exactly is an antivirus researcher?” Sometimes I point them to the “what I do” section of this site, but lately it’s occurred to me that I might make a more formalized picture of … Continue reading
Avoiding Spam
CDT, or the Center for Democracy and Technology, did an extensive study on where spam, or unwanted commercial email, comes from. As a result, they developed this list of tips for preventing spam. This is especially helpful for people who … Continue reading
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Tagged avoiding sending spam, Avoiding Spam, avoiding spam filter, commercial email, e-mail addresses, email address, junk email, mailing lists, multiple e-mail addresses, reducing spam, SPAM, spam-free, spammers, technology, unwanted commercial email
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WildList, May 1997
This is a cooperative listing of viruses reported as being in the wild by 46 virus information professionals. The basis for these reports are virus incidents where a sample was received, and positively identified by the participant. Rumors and unverified … Continue reading
ViruSafe’s Word Macro Virus Killer
Word Macro Virus Overview Word Macro Viruses infect Microsoft Word 6.0 documents by modifying (*.DOC) and the NORMAL.DOT template. When an infected document is opened under Microsoft Word prior to NORMAL.DOT being infected, the virus gets control as an AutoOpen … Continue reading
Nextel’s virus soap opera v2.0
Perhaps you wonder if they dealt with ILoveYou like the actors in their video. Well, wonder no more! A Nextel employee wrote me to say: We got a big kick out of [the soap opera] because most of our handset … Continue reading
Resources : Multimedia files
Don’t blame Microsoft (streaming video) “Bill Gates doesn’t sell antivirus software — so don’t blame Microsoft for your virus woes. Go out and buy a better antivirus product.” Vmyths.com editor Rob Rosenberger created this 11-minute video in May 2000, soon … Continue reading