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VB100 December 2008 - Windows Vista x64

The final VB100 of the year sees a double whammy of potential pitfalls for our comparative participants – the Vista operating system as well as the x64 architecture. John Hawes reveals how the products coped.

The good, the bad and the blurring boundaries

'The reality is that the distinction between legitimate and malicious software is an ever blurring line.’ Greg Day, McAfee

Is your spam filter really adaptive? (Probably not)

Jonathan Zdziarski describes adaptive parsing - a technique that can be applied to a spam classifier’s parser to allow it to learn the most effective way to parse a corpus of mail.

Repercussions of dynamic testing

Roel Schouwenberg highlights one potential consequence of the attention currently being devoted to dynamic testing: the possibility that the increased focus on dynamic testing may inspire malware authors to devote more attention to circumventing products’ protection capabilities, rather than just their detection abilities.

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Malware prevalence

Virus Name	Prevalence	Pct
Agent		22.1%
Mytob		17.7%
Invoice		13.1%
NetSky		9.4%
Suspect packers		6.3%
Goldun		5.7%
Autorun		5.2%
Bagle		4.2%

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VB Conference

The VB conference is a major highlight of the anti-malware calendar, with many of its regular attendees citing it as the anti-malware event of the year. The 19th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2009) will be held 23-25 September 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

‘Always fantastic and memorable, VB is still small and intimate (e.g. vs RSA), yet has the ambience and professionalism of a big budget conference - a perfect balance.’