Viruses and worms

The Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network is a group of security professionals who have agreed to privately share information about computer viruses and worms, with the goal of combatting new threats quickly and improving overall defensive strategies within their organizations. Membership in AVIEN is limited to enterprise users - vendors are excluded.

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"The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide provides an easy to understand overview of different types of malware, or malicious software, including information about the risks they pose, malware characteristics, means of replication, and payloads. The guide details considerations for planning and implementing a comprehensive antivirus defense for your organization, and provides information on defense-in-depth planning and related tools that you can use to help reduce your risk of infection. The final chapter of the guide provides a comprehensive methodology to help you quickly and effectively respond to and recover from malware outbreaks or incidents." From Microsoft. In PDF.

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Latest virus and worm news from Network World Fusion.

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Usenet newsgroup.

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Daily journal covers spam, phishing, viruses, privacy, spyware, and security.

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Listings of anti-virus products that meet certain criteria set by ICSA Labs.

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"This paper has been written to illustrate two of the things that are overlooked with most levels of security implemented to provide a depth of defense: what is happening to the IP addresses on the network that are not being used, and how can these be used to tighten security? If available IP addresses could be used to hold spreading worms or probing systems, then there would be a tangible benefit." SANS Institute, 03/07/02.

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Papers on" RFID Malware: RFID exploits, RFID worms, and RFID viruses."

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"To understand the threat posed by computer worms, it is necessary to understand the classes of worms, the attackers who may employ them, and the potential payloads. This paper describes a preliminary taxonomy based on worm target discovery and selection strategies, worm carrier mechanisms, worm activation, possible payloads, and plausible attackers who would employ a worm." From the ICSI Center for Internet Research. In PDF.

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Analysis of how the worm spread so quickly: "Sapphire's spreading strategy is based on random scanning -- it selects IP addresses at random to infect, eventually finding all susceptible hosts. Random scanning worms initially spread exponentially rapidly, but the rapid infection of new hosts becomes less effective as the worm spends more effort retrying addresses that are either already infected or immune."

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An independent anti-virus site.

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"This paper gives an overview of Virus Throttling, a new technique to limit the damage caused by fast spreading computer worms and viruses. Rather than preventing a machine becoming infected, the technique prevents the virus propagating further from the infected machine. This addresses the two main ways that viruses cause damage: the spread of the virus will be slowed (less machines infected) and the traffic created by the virus will be reduced(less likely to overload network infrastructure)." From HP.

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"Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them. You can also search a list of computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria from A to Z."

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"The WildList has grown into the world's foremost authority on which viruses users should really be concerned with. Used as a basis for testing antivirus software by proficient and competent testing authorities, The Wildlist remains available free to computer users worldwide. We answer thousands of queries ever year, and help provide a reality check for the antivirus industry!"

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