Viruses Malicious Software Security

Viruses

Computer Viruses are malicious programs designed to self-replicate and spread to other systems. The best protection against either viruses or trojan horses is to be very careful not to run any untrusted files, and to run an up to date virus scanner regularly.

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• - A skeptical look at anti-virus protection.
  
• - News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype.
  
• - Virus information from makers of e-Trust Antivirus (formerly known as InoculateIT).
  
• - Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild".
  
• - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup
  
• - Article with basic advice on virus prevention, and a primer on computer virus terminology.
  
• - Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses.
  
• - Provides detailed information on viruses
  
• - An independent site with links to a wide variety of antivirus information and download sites. Includes links to free antivirus programs.
  
• - Various research papers on computer viruses
  
• - Computer Associates alphabetical virus database. Searchable with clear descriptions of common viruses.
  
• - Various papers on computer viruses, computer security, and ethics.
  
• - Independent anti-virus journal and website with advice, reviews and tutorials
  
• - A technically oriented history of computer viruses by Robert M. Slade.
  
• - Independent site with extensive FAQs, papers, and other antivirus resources.
  
• - Combines universities, industry, media, technical, security, and legal experts from civil and military government and law enforcement as well as privacy protection organizations whose objectives are to unite non-commercial efforts against writing and prol
  
• - Tool to automatically send EICAR test files in various formats to a given email address.
  
• - The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
  
• - This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
  
• - Massive listing of tasks that may be running on a Windows system at startup, including tasks which may be created by viruses, worms, spyware, and trojans
  
• - News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products.
  
• - Collects virus information from multiple anti-virus vendors, and the collected information is grouped and indexed. When certain conditions are met virus alerts are generated and can be emailed.
  
• - Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
  
• - No longer actively maintained. Detailed information on a number of older computer viruses, particularly for more obscure platforms.
  
• - Points out that Mydoom was so damaging only because so many individual net users were so unprotected despite education efforts that apparently do not have any significant effect on user behavior.
  
• - Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
  
• - Trend Micro issues regular advisories regarding new viruses, including a guide to avoiding them in the first place. Site covers risk factor of the newest viruses. lists top ten virus and offers a security alert archive.
  
• - Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads.
  
• - Information to help computer users learn how to protect computers from viruses and hackers.
  
• - Provides a standardized test file for signature based virus detection software. This file can be used to verify the correct operation of antivirus software without unnecessary exposure to viruses.
  
• - Article showing how to test the effectiveness of anti-virus heuristics using modifications of the EICAR test file.
  
• - Database of viruses for research and informational purposes
  
• - A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software.
  
• - Information on the latest viruses, hoaxes, anti-virus software, updates and cleaning tools.
  
• - Long essay that describes harm done by major computer viruses or worms, and discusses the nonexistent or lenient punishment for the authors or distributors of these malicious programs.
  
• - Multipart tutorial describes how computer viruses work.
  
• - Contains details about latest virus alerts and wide spread virus information.
  
• - Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.
  
• - Massive collection of antivirus links and news.
  
• - Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
  
• - An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers.
  
• - Configuration guides for many popular antivirus and antitrojan packages
  
• - Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to free tools and other resources.
  
• - Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus.
  
  

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