Virus Bulletin is a magazine about the prevention, detection and removal of

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and

spam Spam most often refers to: * Spam (food), a consumer brand product of canned processed pork of the Hormel Foods Corporation * Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages ** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages ...

. It regularly features analyses of the latest

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threats, articles exploring new developments in the fight against viruses, interviews with anti-virus experts, and evaluations of current

anti-malware Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name ...

products.

History and profile

''Virus Bulletin'' was founded in 1989` as a monthly hardcopy magazine, and later distributed electronically in PDF format. The monthly publication format was discontinued in July 2014 and articles are now made available as standalone pieces on the website. The magazine was originally located in the

Sophos Sophos Limited is a British security software and hardware company. It develops and markets managed security services and cybersecurity software and hardware, such as managed detection and response, incident response and endpoint security s ...

headquarters in

Abingdon, Oxfordshire Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. The historic county town of Berkshire, the area was occupied f ...

in the UK. It was co-founded and is owned by Jan Hruska and Peter Lammer, the co-founders of Sophos. ''Virus Bulletin'' claims to have full editorial independence and not favour Sophos products in its tests and reviews. Technical experts from anti-virus vendors have written articles for the magazine, which also conducts comparison tests of the detection rates of anti-virus software. Products which manage to detect 100% of the viruses in the wild, without false alarms, are given the VB100 award. The magazine holds an annual conference (in late September or early October) for computer security professionals. In recent years both magazine and conference have branched out to discuss anti-spam and other security issues as well as malware. Notable previous speakers include Mikko Hyppönen,

Eugene Kaspersky Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (; born 4 October 1965) is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-s ...

and Graham Cluley, as well as representatives from all major anti-virus vendors.Virus Bulletin Conference 2016 Programme
/ref> Virus Bulletin was a founder member of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization and remains a member today.

References

External links

* Computer magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1989 Mass media in Oxfordshire Works about computer hacking {{Compu-mag-stub