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This section contains assorted documentation that doesn't readily fit into any of the other categories.
The Graphics FAQ from the newsgroup comp.graphics.misc | |
The Graphic File Format FAQ has information about how graphics files are organised | |
Nan Schaller's Graphics Page has links to many other online graphics-related resources | |
The Visualisation Centre at the University of Manchester | |
The Advisory Group on Computer Graphics provides information about graphics research with the UK | |
SIGGRAPH, the ACM's Special Interest Group for Graphics, is a good source of graphics-related information | |
The newsgroup comp.graphics.misc is a good source of information, and there are lots of other more specialised comp.graphics.* groups as well |
The Virus Mini-FAQ from the newsgroup alt.comp.virus: read this before panicking | |
The Virus FAQ from the newsgroup alt.comp.virus: a more detailed description of viruses, their spread and what you can do to protect yourself | |
Some anti-virus software to get you started, although this stuff tends to go out-of-date very quickly | |
The home of Dr. Solomon, and the home of Dr. Solomon's (commercial) antivirus package | |
The Virus Bulletin has lots of up-to-date information about viruses | |
Datafellows, a good site for information about viruses as well as the latest version of the F-Prot antivirus utility | |
Trend Micro have a good selection of virus information | |
Stiller Research is yet another good source of virus information | |
The newsgroups comp.virus and alt.comp.virus are a good source of up-to-date information about viruses |
The Data Compression FAQ: information about file compression techniques. | |
A selection of data compression software | |
A good list of pointers to compression resources and information | |
The Info-ZIP home page | |
PKWare, the home site for Phil Katz's well-known compression software (PKZip/PKUnzip, PKLite and others) | |
The home site for WinZip, the popular compression tool for Windows | |
The newsgroup comp.compression |
An Introduction to Cryptography by Tatu Ylonen | |
Some encryption software | |
Tatu Ylonen's cryptography pages are a good starting point if you want to know more about cryptography | |
Seven Locks Software have a good selection of information about encryption | |
The home site for PGP, Phil Zimmermann's famous encryption package | |
RSA Data Security | |
The newsgroup sci.crypt |