Computer Viruses

The 1980's saw the advent of widespread (and potentially damaging) computer virus infection of both personal computer and mainframe systems. The computer security field has been comparatively slow to react to this emerging situation. It is only over the last two years that a significant body of knowledge on the operation, likely evolution and prevention of computer viruses has developed. A Pathology of Computer Viruses gives a detailed overview of the history of the computer virus and an in-depth technical review of the principles of computer virus and worm operation under DOS, Mac, UNIX and DEC operating systems.

Microorganisms, viruses, and computer programs encode all the information necessary to reproduce and spread themselves. Yet these mechanisms are amazingly similar in the animate world, in the world of viruses, and even in the world of technical systems. The book shows how great the parallels are between these various animate and inanimate replicating systems and what they are based on.

Purpose of computer virus, symptoms of computer virus, protection of computer from virus, Computer virus vs. Malware

Computer Viruses, Malware, Purpose of Computer Viruses, Spread of Computer Viruses, Difference between Viruses & Malware

Signs of computer virus, Types of computer viruses, Computer virus and other types of malware, what a computer virus can

“Viruses don’t harm, ignorance does. Is ignorance a defense?” herm1t “[…] I am convinced that computer viruses are not evil and that programmers have a right to create them, to possess them and to experiment with them … truth seekers and wise men have been per- ´ secuted by powerful idiots in every age …’ Mark A. Ludwig Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.