Doug Muth's Anti-Virus Help Page
Independent site with extensive FAQs, papers, and other antivirus resources.
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 unnecessary 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.
Fire Antivirus Kit - Virus Information Library
Provides detailed information on viruses
F-Secure Virus Information Centre
A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software.
#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.
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.
Lets have fun with EICAR
Article showing how to test the effectiveness of anti-virus heuristics using modifications of the EICAR test file.
Panda Software Virus Laboratory
Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
Personal Home page - Ferrie, Peter
Various research papers on computer viruses
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.
RAV Virus Encyclopedia
Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus.
Secunia - 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.
Softpanorama University Skeptical Antivirus page
A skeptical look at anti-virus protection.
Solo Antivirus - Virus encyclopedia
Contains details about latest virus alerts and wide spread virus information.
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