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VB Comparative: Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

A diverse range of products was submitted for this month’s 64-bit comparative review. John Hawes has the details of how they all fared.

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Trojan crimeware - is it worth all the fuss?

Jeffrey Aboud investigates the buzz surrounding trojan crimeware.

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What next? Trojan.Linkoptimizer

The Linkoptimizer trojan raised alarms in the AV industry signalling that there are other ingenious ways besides advanced rootkits to make the lives of both users and security providers difficult. Mircea Ciubotariu has the full details of…

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The medium or the message? Dealing with image spam

In last month's VB John Graham-Cumming reported on the rise and rise of image spam. Here, Catalin Cosoi describes a technique for dealing with this form of spam.

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SoftICE, security and the future

'My feeling is that we are unlikely to see an open source replacement for SoftICE any time soon.' Aleksander Czarnowski, Avet.

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Corrections to Windows 2000 server comparative review

Updates and corrections to last month's Windows 2000 Server comparative review.

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A fortune fox hunter

Kaoru Hayashi has the details of Infostealer.Snifula - a trojan that spies on Firefox.

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Humour at Symantec's expense

'I believe the humour used in my [VB2006] presentation at the expense of Symantec was justified, but it was unfair to fail to acknowledge the dedication, intellect and ingenuity of the many people Symantec employs.' Randy Abrams, ESET.

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Montréal in the fall

The VB conference drew to a close in Montréal last month after three packed days of presentations, panel discussions, meetings, birds of a feather sessions and lively debate, with a fair amount of eating, drinking, music and acrobatics thrown in for…

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The rise and rise of image-based spam

John Graham-Cumming charts the rise of image-based spam.

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