eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev) (02/18/91)
This is my paper on the situation with viruses in the USSR. It was written in october-november of 1990, so there are some notes to it: 1)It does not names all viruses in the SU, but this number is NOT too high. Maybe there are a couple of dozens, not more. If you'd got an information about hundred and more viruses in the USSR, don't beleive it ! 2)Vienna (648) virus is dated by 1987 there. I don't know how it could be and where is a bug but three my friends independently points out to 1987 as a first time of our problems with this virus. This is the reason why I've left out this date in the paper, though ALL other sourcers points out to the 1988. I try to make who-is-who in our field so I am interested in names, adresses, fields of interests of antiviral researchers all over the world. Another (and ORIGINAL) reason for this interest is that I am writing (and modifing) the book devoted to the problems connected with the different badware. I don't want to make a catalog, but a textbook for students and future antiviral researchers. It is going concurrently with a research work, so I'm interested to discuss different ideas as wide as possible. [Ed. Dr. Musaev - many thanks for your paper, and welcome to VIRUS-L/comp.virus! The text of the paper has been placed on cert.sei.cmu.edu under pub/virus-l/docs/viruses.ussr for anonymous FTP.] Eldar A. Musaev Ph.D., Researcher Leningrad Division of the Mathematical Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR email: eldar@lomi.spb.su USSR 191 011 Leningrad (maybe through fuug.fi, or Fontanka 27 demos!lomi.spb.su!eldar@fuug.fi)
eldar@lomi.spb.su (Eldar A. Musaev) (05/06/91)
By the information of the moscow AV researcher and developer of the AIDSTST (one of the soviet analogs of SCAN) Dmitry N.Lozinsky there are approx. 130 viruses in the USSR, including rare, very rare and exotic. Again, only 20-30 of them are really active. Newly published book of Kiev AV researcher Nikolai N.Bezrukov contains references to approx. 10-15 soviet viruses (Voronezh group, Hymn group), though Lozinsky state that there are much more ones now and the wave of the soviet viruses is coming after the wave of the Bulgarian ones. I could not confirm or deny these data - I've seen only three ones, and it seems to be so that there are no more in Leningrad this time. Eldar A.Musaev, researcher, Ph.D. eldar@lomi.spb.su Mathematical Instituite of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR