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#hackfix project - software configuration guides - Configuration guides for many popular antivirus and antitrojan packages
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 Microsoft Windows. Includes links to free tools and other resources.
comp.virus Newsgroup FAQs - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup
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.
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.
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.
MSN Messenger Viruses - Information and removal instructions for various viruses and worms designed to attack MSN Messenger.
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.
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.
The WildList Organization International - Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild".
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 - News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products.
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.
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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