- Paperback: 725 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (Sep 21 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072130903
- ISBN-13: 978-0072130904
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 5.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #857,805 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hardly a week goes by without news of some malicious program or other playing havoc with large numbers of computers somewhere on the Internet. Viruses Revealed shows where computer viruses come from, how they spread and how you can protect the computers you're responsible for. It recognises that viruses are inherent in the modern computing environment (which makes it easy to share data among machines) and that there's no absolutely certain way to maintain any degree of usefulness in a computer while eliminating all risk of viral infection. From there, the three authors proceed to make their readers informed participants in a dangerous computing world. They do this by defining terms (such as dropper, a program that isn't a virus itself but which serves to install one), explaining concepts (such as the difficulties anti-virus programs face in detecting Trojan programs) and documenting historical events (infamous viruses of the past--Love Bug, Kournikova, and so on--and why they worked).
To their credit, the authors go to great lengths to be authoritative. They document pretty much everything they say with references, and rarely assume that the reader knows what any but the most basic terms mean. Furthermore, they're modest, and don't claim that what they say will save your machines from viral attack. Rather, they say that appropriate defences will reduce your risk of infection, and solid documentation, backup and recovery mechanisms will help you halt successful attacks early and recover from them promptly. The prose here is well written and often funny--Viruses Revealed is a big winner. --David Wall
Topics covered: Computer viruses: What they are, where they come from, how they work, and how to deal with them. A combination of case studies and explanatory prose shows how to minimise your virus risk, regardless of what kinds of computers you run.
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Defend your system against the real threat of computer viruses with help from this comprehensive resource. Up-do-date and informative, this book presents a full-scale analysis on computer virus protection. Through use of case studies depicting actual virus infestations, this guide provides both the technical knowledge and practical solutions necessary to guard against the increasing threat of virus attacks.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good reference, but pick your spots,
By Dan Ronco "Author of 2031: The Singularity Po... (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Viruses Revealed (Paperback)
"Viruses Revealed" is a comprehensive review of the subject, written from the perspective of a security professional. If you're searching for an in-depth understanding of virus programming, keep looking. But if you're a system administrator or technology manager responsible for minimizing risk, then this is an important reference to study. I'd also recommend this book to any IT professional who wants to develop a good overview of virus technology.The authors really know their field and they have a bit of an attitude, but it's generally amusing. They assume the reader has a modest technical background and carefully cover the fundamentals, provide a brief historical overview, then dive into virus structures and mechanisms. Good stuff, but you've seen much of it before, so pick and choose. The next section - a good overview of management solutions - is worthwhile. Then the authors select a representative sample of the better-known viruses roughly in the chronological order they were released. Each virus is discussed, but the value of such a lengthy section eludes me. Another place to pick and choose. Finally, the authors examine non-technical (social) aspects, such as social engineering, legal issues, ethics and so on. No light bulbs went off, but it's useful information. Excellent overview of the field, but not worth reading cover to cover unless you're new to the subject. The authors should have culled out much of the repetitive information and tightened the rest. "Viruses Revealed" is good, but pick your spots.
3.0 out of 5 stars
High Level Overview,
This review is from: Viruses Revealed (Paperback)
How you tend to rate a book often depends on what you are looking to get out of it. For my purposes, this book leans a bit too much toward the high-level end of the spectrum. For example, the discussions on how viruses and anti-virus software solutions work is presented from the 10000 foot level. Much of the content seems to focus on the management/policy making end of the problem space rather than the technical point of view. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but as a techie, it just wasn't what I was after. Oddly enough, the author rates Roger Grimes' Mailicious Mobile Code as a mediocre to poor reference on the subject of computer malware. Even though Grimes' book is Microsoft-centric, I consider it a far better reference from a technical standpoint.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good idea, poorly executed,
By Tim Coppedge (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Viruses Revealed (Paperback)
I really had trouble reading this book. It isn't very well written and it felt that most of it had been gleaned from the internet, edited, bound and published. The book sensationalizes viruses and other malicious code, while the actual threat from viruses has decreased significantly. Fewer sophisticated viruses are released every year. The average worm or email virus that is written by some disgruntled teenager just isn't sophisticated enough to be worried about, and fewer proficient programmers are producing malicious code (the stakes are too high). As a technically proficient person, I found the book boring and, condescending. The authors went on and on, were not concise, and didn't "reveal" anything that even a computer savvy 16 year old wouldn't already know. At the same time the confused writing, will only serve to baffle novices. If you want reliable information about malicious code then try: 1) Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows,
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