Virus Proof - Like biological viruses, computer viruses can spread quickly and are often difficult to get rid of without causing damage. Virus Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Protecting Your System provides key steps you should take to protect your system from these destructive viruses. Inside you will learn how to recover data that is lost as a result of a virus, what common viruses do, and how they spread. Virus Proof is an excellent resource for any computer user, from the beginner to the expert.
McAfee Anti-Virus for Beginners - When it comes to name recognition in the computer virus realm, one name stands out: John McAfee, whose Scan and Clean programs were one of the earliest shareware success stories. McAfee's commercial packages, VirusScan and WebScan, are some of the hottest selling products in the anti-virus market. If you own VirusScan and it's still sitting in the shrink-wrap or you are searching for an entry-level quick fix, then look no further. Brian Howard's book will show you how to make the most of the McAfee software; it even comes with a free trial version. This brief introduction to viruses and their history provides the virus basics: what they are, how they are contracted, how to avoid them, and what to do if your computer catches one. The purpose of this book is to train novices in a particular software package. The concise and easy-to-read text achieves this goal in an efficient and interesting fashion. The FAQ and the glossary both provide good references. The book is more than adequate for helping the beginner to correctly implement a powerful security measure, but if you are looking for a more academic approach to the topic, you will have to look elsewhere.
Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows - Malicious mobile code is a new term to describe all sorts of destructive programs: viruses, worms, Trojans, and rogue Internet content. Until fairly recently, experts worried mostly about computer viruses that spread only through executable files, not data files, and certainly not through email exchange. The Melissa virus and the Love Bug proved the experts wrong, attacking Windows computers when recipients did nothing more than open an email. Today, writing programs is easier than ever, and so is writing malicious code. The idea that someone could write malicious code and spread it to 60 million computers in a matter of hours is no longer a fantasy. The good news is that there are effective ways to thwart Windows malicious code attacks, and author Roger Grimes maps them out in Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows. His opening chapter on the history of malicious code and the multi-million dollar anti-virus industry sets the stage for a comprehensive rundown on today's viruses and the nuts and bolts of protecting a system from them. He ranges through the best ways to configure Windows for maximum protection, what a DOS virus can and can't do, what today's biggest threats are, and other important and frequently surprising information. For example, how many people know that joining a chat discussion can turn one's entire computer system into an open book? alicious Mobile Code delivers the strategies, tips, and tricks to secure a system against attack. It covers: The current state of the malicious code writing and cracker community How malicious code works, what types there are, and what it can and cannot do Common anti-virus defenses, including anti-virus software How malicious code affects the various Windows operating systems, and how to recognize, remove, and prevent it Macro viruses affecting MS Word, MS Excel, and VBScript Java applets and ActiveX controls Enterprise-wide malicious code protection Hoaxes The future of malicious mobile code and how to combat such code. These days, when it comes to protecting both home computers and company networks against malicious code, the stakes are higher than ever. Malicious Mobile Code is the essential guide for securing a system from catastrophic loss.