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  • Throwback Thursday: Hyppönen, that Data Fellow / Finnish Sprayer

    This week, well known and universally respected industry guru Mikko Hyppönen celebrates his 25th anniversary of working at F-Secure (formerly known as Data Fellows ). In recognition of this milestone, VB takes a look back in the archives at two articles published in 1994: an “insight” into the life and work of the then rising…

  • Throwback Thursday: Hyppönen, that Data Fellow / Finnish Sprayer

    This week, well known and universally respected industry guru Mikko Hyppönen celebrates his 25th anniversary of working at F-Secure (formerly known as Data Fellows ). In recognition of this milestone, VB takes a look back in the archives at two articles published in 1994: an “insight” into the life and work of the then rising…

  • Throwback Thursday: The Number of the Beasts

    The Virus Bulletin Virus Prevalence Table, which ran from 1992 until 2013, gave users a regular snapshot of what was really going on in the virus (and later malware) world, each month recording the number of incidents of each virus reported to VB in the preceding month. In August 2000, Denis Zenkin, a self-confessed virus…

  • Throwback Thursday: ‘In the Beginning was the Word…’

    Microsoft has recently introduced a new feature to Office 2016 : the ability to block macros,in an attempt to curb the spread of macro malware, which is once again on the rise . Macro viruses first appeared in 1995, at a time when there were over 100 times as many DOS viruses in existence as…

  • Throwback Thursday: Viruses on the Internet

    This Throwback Thursday VB heads back to 1996 when VB published a report on the state of viruses on the Internet. In the mid-1990s, long before the days of driveby downloads and exploit kits, the main source of viruses on the Internet was virus sites – indeed, in 1995, the NCSA, together with a number…

  • Throwback Thursday: The Thin Blue Line

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1994 when UK Fraud Squad detectives started making inroads into the most puzzling ‘Whodunnit’ since the Great Train Robbery. Had an outbreak of computer crime swept Britain? No, it was all part of a police training program. Last year, a total of 400 people from 16 nations participated…

  • Throwback Thursday: Peter-II – Three Questions of The Sphinx

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1993, when an ordinary memory-resident master boot sector virus spiced things up with a bit of pop trivia. Over recent years we have become used to hearing about ransomware extorting money from victims by locking up their devices and demanding a ransom in order for access to the…

  • Throwback Thursday: I say Virus, You say Trojan

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1998 — a time when anti-virus vendors avoided tackling non-replicating trojans, worms, jokes and corrupted files. Today, the idea of security vendors not tackling trojans or other forms of malware seems absurd, yet back in the 90s, anti-virus vendors argued that because, by definition, they developed anti-virus ,…

  • Throwback Thursday: A View from the Lab

    This Throwback Thursday, VB heads back to 1997 with ‘A View from the Lab’. According to its website, the AV-TEST Institute currently registers over 390,000 new malicious programs every day. Back in mid-1997 though, new viruses and variants were appearing at a rate of over 250 per month, and according to Dr Solomon’s Software virus…

  • Throwback Thursday: Legal attempts to reduce spam. A UK perspective

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to November 2003, when spam was such a hot topic that VB decided to launch a dedicated ‘VB Spam Supplement’. While, today, spam is a problem that is generally very well mitigated, 12 years ago it was a subject of growing concern and was becoming of increasing…