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- Anti-virus
HelpGuide - Information on the latest viruses, hoaxes, anti-virus software, updates
and cleaning tools.
- Antivirus World
- Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads.
- AskMen.com - How To: Keep
Your Computer Virus-Free - Article with basic advice on virus prevention, and a primer
on computer virus terminology.
- Burton
Systems Software - Virus Avoidance Advice - Advice for avoiding and recovering from
computer virus infections, mostly for users of Micrsoft Windows. Includes links to many
free tools and other resources.
- Code Red Worm
Information and Removal - A simple and easy to follow tutorial on what the Code Red
Worm Virus is, how you know if you have it, and how to get rid of it.
- Computer Virus Myths
- The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
- Computer
Viruses In Unix Networks - Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer
viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
- comp.virus Newsgroup
FAQs - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup
- EICAR
test file - 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 unneccessary exposure to viruses.
- European Institute for
Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) - 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.
- Examples of
Malicious Computer Programs - 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.
- #hackfix
project - software configuration guides - Configuration guides for many popular
antivirus and antitrojan packages
- History
of Computer Viruses - A technically oriented history of computer viruses by Robert M.
Slade.
- How Stuff
Works: Computer Virus - Multipart tutorial describes how computer viruses work.
- How to Protect
Against Computer Viruses - A tutorial on how to protect your computer against viruses.
- IBM's
Antivirus Research - News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's
research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype.
- Index
of Virus Alerts - A free world-wide service run in the public interest warning of
Viruses as soon as they appear, usually within a few hours.
- Kak
removal instructions - Manual removal procedures for the Kak email worm
- MSN
Messenger Viruses - Information and removal instructions for various viruses and worms
designed to attack MSN Messenger.
- Personal Home Page -
Gordon, Sarah - Various papers on computer viruses, computer security, and ethics.
- Personal
Home Page - Harrold, Robert - Massive collection of antivirus links and news.
- Personal Home Page -
Szor, Peter - Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site
covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic
viruses.
- Personal Homepage -
Ferrie, Peter - Various research papers on computer viruses
- Softpanorama University Skeptical
Antivirus page - A skeptical look at anti-virus protection.
- Team Anti-Virus
- An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication,
collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by
independent researchers.
- TestVirus.org -
Tool to automatically send EICAR test files in various formats to a given email address.
- Tim O'Leary's
Anti Virus Resource site - An independent site with links to a wide variety of
antivirus information and download sites. Includes links to free antivirus programs.
- Virus Bulletin
- Independent Anti-virus Advice - Independent anti-virus journal and website with
advice, reviews and tutorials
- Virus or Hoax? -
Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies,
public services, software downloads, and updates.
- The WildList
Organization International - Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list
of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild".
- Windows
Startup Tasks - 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
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