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Not worthy

Peter Ferrie has the details of MSIL/Idonus.

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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?

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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.

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

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

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Ally in our defences

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

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Cooperative heuristics

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

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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.

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Inside the Microsoft script encoder

Peter Ferrie delves inside the Microsoft script encoder.

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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.

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New anti-spam group for China

Internet Society of China announces new anti-spam group.

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