Stopping Spyware

Stopping Spyware

Stop spyware in its tracks! Spyware infects the vast majority of home computers today. After it’s on your machine, it can be used to access your social security number, track every website you visit, and take control of your computer away from you. If you work for a large company, odds are your company has purchased anti-spyware protection for you. But readers using home computers or running small businesses are on their own and vulnerable to infection.

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Addison Wesley - The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense - Download ebook

Author: Peter Szor
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Format: CHM
Pages: 744
Size: 13MB
ISBN: 0321304543

"Of all the computer-related books I've read recently, this
one influenced my thoughts about security the most. There is very
little trustworthy information about computer viruses. Peter Szor is
one of the best virus analysts in the world and has the perfect
credentials to write this book."--Halvar Flake, Reverse Engineer,
SABRE Security GmbH

Symantec's chief antivirus researcher has written the definitive
guide to contemporary virus threats, defense techniques, and analysis
tools. Unlike most books on computer viruses, The Art of Computer
Virus Research and Defense is a reference written strictly for white
hats: IT and security professionals responsible for protecting their
organizations against malware. Peter Szor systematically covers
everything you need to know, including virus behavior and
classification, protection strategies, antivirus and worm-blocking
techniques, and much more.

Szor presents the state-of-the-art in both malware and protection,
providing the full technical detail that professionals need to handle
increasingly complex attacks. Along the way, he provides extensive
information on code metamorphism and other emerging techniques, so you
can anticipate and prepare for future threats.

Szor also offers the most thorough and practical primer on virus
analysis ever published--addressing everything from creating your own
personal laboratory to automating the analysis process. This
book's coverage includes

Discovering how malicious code attacks on a variety of platforms

Classifying malware strategies for infection, in-memory operation,
self-protection, payload delivery, exploitation, and more

Identifying and responding to code obfuscation threats: encrypted,
polymorphic, and metamorphic

Mastering empirical methods for analyzing malicious code--and what to
do with what you learn

Reverse-engineering malicious code with disassemblers, debuggers,
emulators, and virtual machines

Implementing technical defenses: scanning, code emulation,
disinfection, inoculation, integrity checking, sandboxing, honeypots,
behavior blocking, and much more

Using worm blocking, host-based intrusion prevention, and network-
level defense strategies

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Springer - Computer Viruses from Theory to Applications - Download ebook

ebook info:
Computer viruses: from theory to applications
by Eric Filiol
Springer Publications
ebook format: PDF
ISBN-10: 2-287-20297-8

This book deals with computer viruses envisaged from three different points of view, namely the theoretical fundamentals of computer virology, algorithmic and practical aspects of viruses and their potential applications to various areas. The theoretical formalization by means of Turing machines, self-reproducing automata and recursive functions enable a precise and exhaustive description of the different types of malware. It follows that the main stakes of computer defense and antiviral fighting are easily highlighted. Detailed analysis of the source code for representative members of each virus/worm family allows the reader to grasp the basic algorithmic aspects involved in self-reproducing codes. The C programming language has been systematically used for a better understanding of the considered codes. Written for: Students (graduates and undergraduates), professionals, engineers, researchers in Computer Security and VirologyKeywords: Computer security, computer science, cryptology, fundamentals.

The idea of what a virus is has a different meaning in the non-specialist’s mind, so much so that most of the time viruses are confused with the more general idea of malware (or malicious programs). The term of “virus” for computers appeared only in 1988. However, the artificial beings that are denoted by the term of virus did in fact exist many years before and their theoretical fundaments were established long before their real existence. The formal work of mathematicians during the 1930s largely contributed to the development of viruses. A number of virus writers have discovered a huge field of applications with this formalization. This fact may be less wellknown. Early viruses only put von Neumann’s theory of self-reproducing automata into application. In the same way, viral polymorphism did not appear “ex nihilo”. This book takes you through logic of some famous viruses and in way teach you what are different things that virus writers target for.
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