- Team Anti-Virus - http://www.teamanti-virus.org/
An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers.
- European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) - http://www.eicar.org/
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 proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and against computer crime and fraud.
- Virus or Hoax? - http://virusall.com/
Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
- Antivirus World - http://www.antivirusworld.com/
Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads.
- Computer Virus Myths - http://www.vmyths.com/
The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
- Examples of Malicious Computer Programs - http://www.rbs2.com/cvirus.htm
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.
- IBM's Antivirus Research - http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/
News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype.
- Windows Startup Tasks - http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
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
- Personal Home Page - Szor, Peter - http://www.peterszor.com/
Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.
- EICAR test file - http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm
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.
- Computer Viruses In Unix Networks - http://www.cybersoft.com/whitepapers/papers/print/networks_print.html
Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
- Burton Systems Software - Virus Avoidance Advice - http://www.burtonsys.com/virus_advice.html
Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to many free tools and other resources.
- TestVirus.org - http://www.testvirus.org/
Tool to automatically send EICAR test files in various formats to a given email address.
- History of Computer Viruses - http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/vtsladecontents.htm
A technically oriented history of computer viruses by Robert M. Slade.
- Lets have fun with EICAR - http://www.ntbugtraq.com/default.asp?pid=36&sid=1&A2=ind0307&L=ntbugtraq&F=P&S=&P=1734
Article showing how to test the effectiveness of anti-virus heuristics using modifications of the EICAR test file.
- Virus Bulletin - http://www.virusbtn.com/
News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products.
- BusinessWeek Online - Mydoom's Most Damning Dynamic - http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2004/tc20040128_7597_tc047.htm
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.
- McAfee Virus Information - http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp
Virus alerts, mailing list, and searchable descriptions of common viruses.
- CIAC Virus Database - http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html
No longer actively maintained. Detailed information on a number of older computer viruses, particularly for more obscure platforms.
- davebauer.net - Avoiding Viruses - http://www.davebauer.net/avoiding_viruses.asp
Information to help computer users learn how to protect computers from viruses and hackers.
- F-Secure Virus Information Centre - http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/
A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software.
- Panda Software Virus Laboratory - http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/
Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
- RAV Virus Encyclopedia - http://www.ravantivirus.com/pages/virus.php
Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus.
- Sophos Virus Analyses - http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/
This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
- Trend Virus Encyclopedia - http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/
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.
- VirusList.com - http://www.viruslist.com
Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses.
- Secunia - Virus Information - http://secunia.com/virus_information/
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.
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