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• - 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.
  
• - Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus.
  
• - A skeptical look at anti-virus protection.
  
• - Provides detailed information on viruses
  
• - Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
  
• - Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
  
• - Tool to automatically send EICAR test files in various formats to a given email address.
  
• - News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products.
  
• - Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses.
  
• - Independent site with extensive FAQs, papers, and other antivirus resources.
  
• - Virus information from makers of e-Trust Antivirus (formerly known as InoculateIT).
  
• - Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to free tools and other resources.
  
• - Various papers on computer viruses, computer security, and ethics.
  
• - 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
  
• - FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup
  
• - Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads.
  
• - This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
  
• - No longer actively maintained. Detailed information on a number of older computer viruses, particularly for more obscure platforms.
  
• - News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype.
  
• - Information to help computer users learn how to protect computers from viruses and hackers.
  
• - A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software.
  
• - Computer Associates alphabetical virus database. Searchable with clear descriptions of common viruses.
  
• - 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
  
• - Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild".
  
• - Article showing how to test the effectiveness of anti-virus heuristics using modifications of the EICAR test file.
  
• - An independent site with links to a wide variety of antivirus information and download sites. Includes links to free antivirus programs.
  
• - Massive collection of antivirus links and news.
  
• - Various research papers on computer viruses
  
• - Points out that Mydoom was so damaging only because so many individual net users were so unprotected despite education efforts that apparently do not have any significant effect on user behavior.
  
• - Configuration guides for many popular antivirus and antitrojan packages
  
• - Information on the latest viruses, hoaxes, anti-virus software, updates and cleaning tools.
  
• - The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
  
• - Trend Micro issues regular advisories regarding new viruses, including a guide to avoiding them in the first place. Site covers risk factor of the newest viruses. lists top ten virus and offers a security alert archive.
  
• - Independent anti-virus journal and website with advice, reviews and tutorials
  
• - 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.
  
• - Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
  
• - Article with basic advice on virus prevention, and a primer on computer virus terminology.
  
• - Multipart tutorial describes how computer viruses work.
  
• - Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A technically oriented history of computer viruses by Robert M. Slade.
  
• - Contains details about latest virus alerts and wide spread virus information.
  
• - An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers.
  
• - Database of viruses for research and informational purposes
  
  

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