On the Road at Infosecurity Europe and EICAR

Eric Allred and I are in London for the Infosecurity Europe conference. We spent the last two days on the conference floor with the Microsoft UK team, talking to customers and partners about Windows Defender, Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Client Protection, and the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. We've also been demoing Windows Vista to customers which includes a number of new security features to help protect from malware, spyware, and potentially unwanted software including Windows Defender, User Account Control, and Internet Explorer 7 with Protected Mode.

On Friday, we'll be flying to the European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) conference in Hamburg. Jeff Williams and two more of our colleagues, Tony Lee and Jigar Mody, will be joining us at this conference. Tony and Jigar will be presenting on Behavioral Classification on Monday, May 1. I've seen an early version of their presentation and it's some pretty interesting stuff. If you're planning to be at EICAR, please track us down and say hello ... and, naturally, come by Tony and Jigar's presentation on Monday.

Matt