  |
Symantec AntiVirus Research Center - http://www.symantec.com/security_response/index.jsp
Virus Encyclopedia site maintained by Symantec, makers of the popular Norton AntiVirus product. |
| |
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. |
| |
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. |
| |
Virus Bulletin - http://www.virusbtn.com/
News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products. |
| |
Computer Virus Myths - http://www.vmyths.com/
The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends. |
| |
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 Associates Virus Encyclopedia - http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/browse.aspx
Computer Associates alphabetical virus database. Searchable with clear descriptions of common viruses. |
| |
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. |
| |
OpenAntiVirus Project - http://www.openantivirus.org/
Project aimed at developing open source antivirus software comparable to current commercial offerings. |
| |
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. |
| |
IBM's Antivirus Research - http://researchweb.watson.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. |
| |
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. |
| |
comp.virus Newsgroup FAQs - http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.virus.html
FAQs from the comp.virus newsgroup |
| |
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. |
| |
Doug Muth's Anti-Virus Help Page - http://www.claws-and-paws.com/virus/
Independent site with FAQs, papers, and other antivirus resources. |
| |
Team Anti-Virus - http://www.teamanti-virus.org/
An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishes and links to many papers written by independent researchers. |
| |
Personal Home Page - Gordon, Sarah - http://www.badguys.org/
Various papers on computer viruses, computer security, and ethics. |
| |
Personal Home page - Ferrie, Peter - http://pferrie.tripod.com/
Various research papers on computer viruses |
| |
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 |