As more computers at enterprises are being infected with malware, the need of a competent and skilled IT administrator or IT Security Specialist in analyzing malware is highly needed.

Anthony from flexilis released a paper on how he went about analyzing last year Malware Challenge. For all of you folks that have to deal with malware incidents or just want to gain insight on how to analyze these in the wild malicious codes, I encourage you to read Anthony's paper for learning the methods and tools used in the process for analyzing malware:

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