
    SECURE COMPUTING reviews "The Virus Creation Labs" in the 
  October 1995 issue!

  Subtitled a journey into the underground, this book seeks to
  acquaint us with the denizens of the seedy world of computer viruses.
  The author - a science and technology journalist armed with a Ph.D.
  in chemistry - is a Jake Blues lookalike with a wry sense of humor;
  he explains in the introduction that he anticipates that "there will
  be a number of people" who hate his book; he puts this down primarily
  to jealousy that they are not mentioned!

  Cheekily, the opening chapter introduces us to virus populists -
  naming and quoting several people for whom the spring of 1992 was
  so memorable with the Michelangelo phenomenon.  He sums up a lot of
  wasted energy with a quote from media humorist Dave Barry about the
  virus "wreaking untold havoc on an estimated one computer."

  Having punctured the reputation (hubris?) of the _good_ guys, he 
  continues in the same vein in this colorful book with chapter titles 
  - each a little story in itself - such as "On the Slab at Cryptic
  Morgue,"  "A Priest Deploys his Satanic Minions," and "The Creeping
  Evil of People with Funny Names."

  The book is informative and stunningly incisive in many respects.
  Some reviewers might have said "I couldn't put it down" but the
  truth is, I had to keep on picking it up - after dropping it while
  curling up in laughter.
