Live from VB2007

What could be better than getting paid to travel to the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria, spending the first half of the week perusing museums and admiring the local baroque architecture, then spending the latter portion listening to the many experts of the anti-malware industry presenting on their most recent work and threat landscape? I’m sure many of you can think of better alternatives, but for a computer geek who enjoys history, it rarely gets better than this. 

The day is nearing an end as the sun is beginning to set on this historic city and day 1 of VB2007. The first day adjourned with many interesting presentations ranging from use of automaton in the world of Malware (for the purposes of good and evil), growing use of malware in virtual worlds (MMORPG and Second Life), to low-level malware techniques (rootkits and patching). 

The three day conference will be busy for our McAfee Avert Labs researchers as we have at least one speaker presenting each day in the VB2007 conference agenda. 

• Patching. Is it always with the best intentions? by Alex Hinchliffe 
• What a waste – the AV community DOS-ing itself by Joe Telafici and Dmitry Gryaznov 
• An analysis for the problem of terminating hidden orphan processes on Windows NT by Ahmed Sallam (presented by Dmitry Gryaznov) 
• Apple media files and iPhone by Marius van Oers