It might be time to explain what Skeptic Catch and Virus Stats links on this website are all about.

As many of you would know, and as my Resume says, I work for MessageLabs. A large part of my responsibilities includes looking afte Anti-Virus (Anti-Malware, to be more precise) and, to some extent, Anti-Spam services. A part of that, in turn, includes articulating the value of MessageLabs service and coming up with some eye-catchers.

Sometimes, it just happens that creating some Proof Of Concepts is easier on my own home box. This is what Skeptic Catch and Virus Stats are.

• Skeptic Catch shows in percentages how much malware, phishing and links (and different combinations thereafter) MessageLabs services stop using different subcomponents. It shows where our own heuristics scanner Skeptic adds value and how much it actually stops in addition to other more traditional vendor scanners
• Virus Stats is my attempt to toy with Ajax. It uses Google Maps to show where different malware and simply suspicious items are coming from. In essence, in the current threat landscape, it is a map of bots scattered around the world. Of course, the locations of those are only as good as the IP-to-GeoLocation database is. My GeoIP database is somewhat outdated, but it is good enough for a Proof Of Concept

So there you go – enjoy!