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Miscellaneous topics

This section contains assorted documentation that doesn't readily fit into any of the other categories.

Graphics

	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

Viruses

	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	Some anti-virus software to get you started, although this stuff tends to go out-of-date very quickly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

Data compression

	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

Cryptography

	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