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Sender: virus-l@lehigh.edu
From: VIRUS-L Moderator <virus-l@assist.ims.disa.mil>
Subject: VIRUS-L Digest V7 #17
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 12:41:52 EST
Today's Topics:
New Book on Viruses
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:21:28 -0500
From: <fc@jupiter.saic.com>
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!
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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
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Date: Sat, 09 Apr 94 08:40:39 -0400
From: <fc@Jupiter.SAIC.Com>
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.