Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 - Virus: An Overview

  • What is a Computer Virus?
  • What Can Viruses Do?
  • What Viruses Can't Do?
  • How Do Viruses Propagate?
  • Who Writes Viruses?
  • Should Viruses Be There?
  • Classification of Viruses
  • Evolution of Viruses
  • A Look at Biological Viruses
  • Computers and Epidemiology
  • The Michaelangelo Effect
  • FAQs about Viruses
  
  

• Chapter 2 - PC Architecture

  • Architecture of the PC's Storage Media
  • PC's Booting-up Sequence
  • The MBR or the Partition Table
  • The DBR or the Boot Sector
  • COM Programs and Their Execution
  • EXE Programs and Their Execution
  • Structure of an EXE File
  • A Generic Method for Repairing Files
  • A Little about the CMOS Information
  • Password Protection for Your PC
  • Viruses on Networks
  
  

• Chapter 3 - Writing Vaccines

  • How to Write Anti-Virus Programs for Boot Infectors
  • A Generic Vaccine for Boot Sector/Partition Table Viruses
  • Virus Protection Using the CMOS Setup
  • An "ANTI-VIRUS" Partition Table
  • A Generic Boot Sector Recovery Program
  • How to Write an Anti-Virus Program for File Infectors
  • A Method for Obtaining Virus Signatures
  • A TSR "WATCHMAN" Program for Preventing Virus Entry
  • Incorporating Self-Protection in Programs
  
  

• Chapter 4 - Anti-Virus Software

  • Public Domain Anti-Virus Software
  • McAfee Associates' Scan
  • F-Prot from Frisk Software International
  • Thunderbyte Anti-Virus
  • Comparision of Anti-Virus Software
  
  

• Chapter 5 - Protection Plans

  • Backups-Safety Against Virus Attacks
  • Scanning Strategies
  • Virus Protection Strategies for a Stand-Alone PC
  • Virus Protection Strategies for Novell Netware Networks
  • How to Guard against Unknown Viruses
  • How to Construct an "ANTI-VIRUS" Toolkit
  • How to Get More Information about Computer Viruses
  • Viruses in the Wild
  
  

• Chapter 6 - Virus Descriptions

  • Descriptions of Some Popular DOS Based Viruses
  • Viruss on Windows 95
  • Viruses on Apple Macintosh Computers
  
  

• Appendix

  • A Virus That Infects Batch Files!
  • A Quick Course in Hexadecimal Numbering
  • A Quick Course on DEBUG
  • Important Low Memory Addresses

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