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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
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- 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
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- "A Short Course on computer Viruses - 2nd Edition"
- Now available from John Wiley and Sons Publishers
- Author Dr. Frederick B. Cohen (me)
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- 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
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- Also available with a software disk containing examples of how
- defenses work, spreadsheets for financial analysis of virus
- defenses, and much much more.
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- "If you liked the last version of the book, this one will knock
- your socks off" - not an actual quote
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- 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
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- 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
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- "It's Alive!" - Now available from John Wiley and Sons Publishers
- Author Dr. Frederick B. Cohen
- ISBN 0-471-00860-5
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- Contents:
- Introduction
- A Definition of Life
- Ecosystems
- Formalities
- Life - The Game
- LPs
- Other Worlds
- Evolution
- The Future
- Annotated Bibliography
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- Comes with a software disk containing source code for benevolent
- viruses for Unix as well as a Life game and other similar systems.
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- 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!
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- Here's what one reviewer said about it:
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- "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. ..."
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- 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.
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