Greetings from AVAR 2006 which this year was held in Auckland, New Zealand! The conference was excellent, lots of interesting topics and the place was perfect. New Zealand is a truly beautiful place and people are nice and helpful. I also had a chance to meet some of the old stars, including Peter Szor. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring my copy of �The Art of Computer Virus Research� book with me to get it signed. Well, maybe some other time then…
The picture is from Peter Ferrie�s presentation about attacks on virtual machine emulators. It explained known and new tricks to detect the presence of different virtual machines and also some newly discovered attacks against them.
I also had a chance to present my paper about kernel malware explaining what they are, how they work, and what makes their detection and removal challenging.