I would like to thank you too, EF.

I had a lot of free time while my computer was in malware assistance (waiting for it to come back up so I could start USING it again), so I spent some time looking at your blog site and saw that you are also involved in malware assistance at other sites, so i know that you are quite busy in what can only be a labor of love.

I truly appreciate the help.

I agree with the need to restructure the forum. Option #1 looks the best. Allan has some good ideas too, but something to keep the security questions separated from the malware help is good. News might go as a temporary sticky at the top of the general questions section.I voted #1 like everyone else.  Heh.  As for a news section, I personally don't see much need for it.  Malware news rarely gets posted as it is, so I don't think it would see much use.  If used regularly, I expect it would probably just be full of threat warnings and whatnot, which usually tend to make people unnecessarily paranoid.  I'm not against a news section, but I'm also not for it.  As long as we get the proposed child boards, I'll be happy.Right. I think the real important security news is limited to things like ADVANCES in the methods of malware production and detection/removal, major changes in anti-malware software, seminar results, annual detection score ratings, law-enforcement alerts, and articles by experts.Okay, just so you guys understand, here is an excerpt of topics from the last 5 days from our SECURITY NEWS sub forum. Again, this is only FIVE days worth. I'm posting this so you can see that if you choose to post security news, there's enough to keep a sub-forum busy.


   
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Security Products Update
 
   

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 
   
Everything you wanted to know about Xbox hacking 
   
Zero Day Vulnerability in Firefox 

Microsoft readies new rootkit detection tool in light of Windows XP patching PROBLEM 
   
17 YEAR old Windows vulnerability shows that it's time to drop legacy support! 
   
Researcher spies new Adobe code execution bug 
   
SUPERAntiSpyware v4.34.1000 released 
   
Microsoft Security Essentials V1.0.1611.0 released 

Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs 

Google fixes Buzz bug
     
Hackers update rootkit causing Windows blue screens 

Malicious PDF files comprised 80 percent of all exploits for 2009 
   
Keeping an Eye on the EYEBOT and a Possible Bot War 

Security updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 

Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location 

New Report Examines Malware's Origins, Motivations 

Kaspersky Patents Hardware Antivirus Approach
 
   
    Quote from: Allan on February 22, 2010, 07:43:23 AM

Okay, just so you guys understand, here is an excerpt of topics from the last 5 days from our SECURITY NEWS sub forum. Again, this is only FIVE days worth. I'm posting this so you can see that if you choose to post security news, there's enough to keep a sub-forum busy.

Can you provide a link for that zero-day firefox topic?

But it is broken as it is now...