hoffman@seas.gwu.edu (lance hoffman) (02/24/90)
I just obtained COMPUTER VIRUS HANDBOOK, by Harold Highland, published
by Elsevier Advanced Technology, Mayfield House, 256 Banbury Road,
Oxford OX2 7DH, United Kingdom. It has approximately 370 pages (8 1/2
x 11) of material in a hard binding, ISBN 0-946395-46-2. It boasts a
foreword by Bill Caelli, Director of the Information Security Research
Center, Queensland University of Technoloby, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia, and ten chapters:
1. Basic Definitions and Other Fundamentals
2. The Application of Epidemiology to Computer Viruses (by William H.
Murray)
3. A History of Computer Viruses
Introduction
The Famous Trio (Brain, Lehigh, Israeli)
Another Trio (Alameda, Ping Pong, Marijuana)
Three Special Viruses (Macro, Vienna, Batch)
Other Known and Reported Viruses (Datacrime, Icelandic, Autumn
Leaves, Fu Manchu, Traceback, others)
4. Reports from the Virus Hunters
U. of Delaware and the Pakistani Computer Virus (by Anne E.
Webster)
Lehigh Virus (by Ken van Wyk)
Israel PC Virus (by Yisrael Radai)
5. Evaluation Protocol and Test Methodology
Virus Test Centers, Evaluation Sites, Anti-virus products
...
6. Testing an Anti-Virus Product (by Jon David)
7. Product Evaluations
(includes reports on Antidote, Data Physician, Disk Defender,
Disk Watcher, Dr. Panda Utilities, Flu Shot +, Immunize, Mace
Vaccine, Ntivirus, Softsafe, Vaccinate, Vaccine [Certus], Vaccine
(Sophos Ltd.), Vaccine (Worldwide Software), VirAlarm 2000 PC,
Virus-Free, Virusafe, Vir-X, V*Screen, XFICheck) [addresses of
manufactures are in back of book]
8. Viruses - A Management Issue (by Harry B. de Maio)
9. Procedures to Reduce the Computer Virus Threat
10. Conceptual Foundations of Computer Viruses
includes five reprinted papers from Computers & Security
Quite a bit of the material has appeared before in Computers & Security
(the journal published by Elsevier) but a good deal is new. Especially
interesting are the test results of anti-viral products.
Lance J. Hoffman
The George Washington University