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"Managing Computer Viruses", Eric Louw/Neil Duffy, 1992, 0-19-853974-6
%A   Eric Louw
%A   Neil Duffy
%C   70 Wynford Drive, Don Mills, Ontario   M3C 1J9
%D   1992
%G   0-19-853974-6
%I   Oxford University Press
%O   cjp@oup-usa.org
%O  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198539746/robsladesinterne
  http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198539746/robsladesinte-21
%O   http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0198539746/robsladesin03-20
%P   171 p.
%T   "Managing Computer Viruses"

Chapter one is a vague outline of the problem of computer viruses,
interspersed with other, semi-related issues.  There is a broad
background and history, in chapter two, but the authors do not appear
to have fully understood their own research, confusing, for example,
the Xerox PARC worm with the game of core wars.  There are basic
frameworks presented from the works of other researchers, but these
are given in a muddled structure.  Chapter three spends a lot of time
drawing analogies between computer and biological viruses, while
simultaneously warning that you shouldn't do this.  Protection against
viruses, in chapter four, presents a generic security plan with a few
details related to malware.  An opinion survey of sorts is tendered in
chapter five.  Policy formation, in chapter six, is another section
lifted from a general security text.  Chapter seven is a precis of the
book.

Yes, the book is outdated, but it didn't have much to say in the first
place.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 2003   BKMNCMVR.RVW   20031217