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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 Micrsoft Windows. Includes links to many free tools and other resources.
» 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 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 prol
» 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.
» 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.
» 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 - 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 Home page - 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.
» 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
» comp.virus Newsgroup FAQs - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup