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A Pathology of Computer Viruses /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferbrache, David
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Springer London, 1992.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Software engineering.
Operating systems (Computers)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Theory of Viruses
  • Operation of PC Viruses
  • Management of PC Viruses
  • Apple Macintosh Viruses
  • Mainframe Systems: The Growing Threat
  • Network Viruses: The Worms
  • Reactions of the IT Community
  • Conclusions: The Future Ahead
  • Appencides: DOS Filestore Structure; Low Level Disk Layout; EXE File Format; Mac Filestore Structure; PC Virus Relationship Chart; Macintosh Virus Relationship Chart; PC Boot Sequence; AIDS Trojan: Accompanying Licence; Software Infected at Source; Nomenclature; UNIX Boot Sequence; CERT Press Release; CERT/CIAC Advisories; Contact Points; Abbreviations; Further Reading; Virus-1 Archive Sites; Relative Frequencies of IBM Viruses; Subject Index.