========================================================================= Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu From: VIRUS-L Moderator Subject: VIRUS-L Digest V7 #17 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 12:41:52 EST Today's Topics: New Book on Viruses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:21:28 -0500 From: Subject: New Book on Viruses "A Short Course on computer Viruses - 2nd Edition" Now available from John Wiley and Sons Publishers Author Dr. Frederick B. Cohen (me) Contents: Computer Virus Basics Real-World Viruses Technical Protection From Viruses Non-Technical Defenses Some Analysis Stategy and Tactics in Virus Defense Finishing Up Appendices: The Good Joke The Formal Definition of Viruses Models of Practical Virus Defenses Some Sample Forms of Program Evolution Viruses in Networks Annotated Bibliography Also available with a software disk containing examples of how defenses work, spreadsheets for financial analysis of virus defenses, and much much more. "If you liked the last version of the book, this one will knock your socks off" - not an actual quote ALSO INCLUDED: - Why IBM's epidemiological model of virus defense may lead to global catastrophy! - How to save a lot of money by making better management decisions about viruses! - The history of benevolent viruses, what are their risks, and how to aviod them! ========================================================================= Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu Subject: VIRUS-L Digest V7 #28 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 10:14:35 EDT Today's Topics: New Book on Benevolent Viruses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 94 08:40:39 -0400 From: Subject: New Book on Benevolent Viruses "It's Alive!" - Now available from John Wiley and Sons Publishers Author Dr. Frederick B. Cohen ISBN 0-471-00860-5 Contents: Introduction A Definition of Life Ecosystems Formalities Life - The Game LPs Other Worlds Evolution The Future Annotated Bibliography Comes with a software disk containing source code for benevolent viruses for Unix as well as a Life game and other similar systems. ALSO INCLUDED: - An Intergenerational Communications Theory - Diseases of the Joint Life Form - The Nanotechnology Breeder Reactor - CoreWar and Tierra - Benevolent Viruses for Distributed Databases - And a whole lot more! Here's what one reviewer said about it: "In It's Alive, Fred Cohen does for living programs what Stephen Jay Gould did for evolution, and Asimov did for just about everything else in the cosmos. ..." If you are interested in artificial life or computer viruses, this book is a must read - only $39.95, software included, published by John Wiley and Sons, New York.