Knowledge: viruses
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- Team Anti-Virus
http://www.teamanti-virus.org/ - An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers.
- Softpanorama University Skeptical Antivirus page
http://www.softpanorama.org/Antivirus/index.shtml - A skeptical look at anti-virus protection.
- European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR)
http://www.eicar.org/ - 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 proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and against computer crime and fraud.
- Personal Home Page - Gordon, Sarah
http://www.badguys.org/ - Various papers on computer viruses, computer security, and ethics.
- The WildList Organization International
http://www.wildlist.org/ - Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild".
- Doug Muth's Anti-Virus Help Page
http://www.claws-and-paws.com/virus/ - Independent site with extensive FAQs, papers, and other antivirus resources.
- How Stuff Works: Computer Virus
http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm - Multipart tutorial describes how computer viruses work.
- Virus or Hoax?
http://virusall.com/ - Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
- Computer Virus Myths
http://www.vmyths.com/ - The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
- Examples of Malicious Computer Programs
http://www.rbs2.com/cvirus.htm - 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.
- Virus Bulletin - Independent Anti-virus Advice
http://www.virusbtn.com/index.xml - Independent anti-virus journal and website with advice, reviews and tutorials
- comp.virus Newsgroup FAQs
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.virus.html - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup
- Personal Home page - Ferrie, Peter
http://pferrie.tripod.com/ - Various research papers on computer viruses
- Windows Startup Tasks
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm - 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
- #hackfix project - software configuration guides
http://www.hackfix.org/software/configure/ - Configuration guides for many popular antivirus and antitrojan packages
- Personal Home Page - Szor, Peter
http://www.peterszor.com/ - Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.
- EICAR test file
http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm - 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.
- Computer Viruses In Unix Networks
http://www.cybersoft.com/whitepapers/papers/print/networks_print.html - Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
- Burton Systems Software - Virus Avoidance Advice
http://www.burtonsys.com/virus_advice.html - Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to many free tools and other resources.
- Personal Home Page - Harrold, Robert
http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra/antivirus.html - Massive collection of antivirus links and news.
- AskMen.com - How To: Keep Your Computer Virus-Free
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/how_to_60/66_how_to.html - Article with basic advice on virus prevention, and a primer on computer virus terminology.
- Lets have fun with EICAR
http://www.ntbugtraq.com/default.asp?pid=36&sid=1&A2=ind0307&L=ntbugtraq&F=P&... - Article showing how to test the effectiveness of anti-virus heuristics using modifications of the EICAR test file.
- Virus Bulletin
http://www.virusbtn.com/ - News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products.
- BusinessWeek Online - Mydoom's Most Damning Dynamic
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040128_7597_tc047.htm - 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.
- McAfee Virus Information
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp - Virus alerts, mailing list, and searchable descriptions of common viruses.
- Computer Associates Virus Information Center
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/default.aspx - Virus information from makers of e-Trust Antivirus (formerly known as InoculateIT).
- davebauer.net - Avoiding Viruses
http://www.davebauer.net/avoiding_viruses.asp - Information to help computer users learn how to protect computers from viruses and hackers.
- Fire Antivirus Kit - Virus Information Library
http://www.fireav.com/virusinfo/library/ - Provides detailed information on viruses
- F-Secure Virus Information Centre
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/ - A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software.
- Panda Software Virus Laboratory
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/ - Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
- RAV Virus Encyclopedia
http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/virus.php - Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus.
- Solo Antivirus - Virus encyclopedia
http://www.srnmicro.com/virusinfo/ - Contains details about latest virus alerts and wide spread virus information.
- Sophos Virus Analyses
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/ - This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
- Trend Virus Encyclopedia
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/ - 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.
- Virus Information Library and Search
http://www.viruslibrary.com/ - Database of viruses for research and informational purposes
- VirusList.com
http://www.viruslist.com - Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses.
- Secunia - Virus Information
http://secunia.com/virus_information/ - 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.
- OpenAntiVirus Project
http://www.openantivirus.org/ - Project aimed at developing open source antivirus software comparable to current commercial offerings.
- The Art Of Noh
http://www.noh.ro/blog/index.rdf - A weblog on computer security, viruses, worms, trojans and other types of malicious software by Costin G. Raiu.
- Computer Associates Virus Encyclopedia
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/browse.aspx - Computer Associates alphabetical virus database. Searchable with clear descriptions of common viruses.
- Symantec AntiVirus Research Center
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/index.jsp - Virus Encyclopedia site maintained by Symantec, makers of the popular Norton AntiVirus product.
- IBM's Antivirus Research
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/antivirus/ - News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype.
- Virus Hoax
http://www.virushoax.net - Virus Hoax is a website dedicated to providing valuable information about internet and computer security, and a central location for finding out about current threats.
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