The Anti-Virus Book!

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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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