BKVR.RVW   20011013

"Viruses Revealed", Robert M. Slade/David Harley/Urs Gattiker, 2001,
0-07-213090-3, U$39.99
%A   Robert M. Slade rslade@sprint.ca, rslade@vcn.bc.ca, p1@canada.com
%A   David Harley harley@sherpasoft.org.uk, macvirus@dircon.co.uk
%A   oh, yeah, and Urs Gattiker, too
%C   300 Water Street, Whitby, Ontario   L1N 9B6
%D   2001
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%O    prices in CDN$, pounds, or kroner?  Nooooooooo.  Of course, you
%O    could order it from Chapters.ca for C$63.95, but it'll take two
%O    weeks for them to get it ...)
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%P   700 p.
%T   "Viruses Revealed"

The International Institute for Fashion and Other Really Nasty Things
today announced the winner of the 2001 Award for the World's Ugliest
Book Cover.  "Normally, we wouldn't announce a winner until next
spring some time," said Frederick Krueger, the Institute's president,
"but with the release of `Viruses Revealed,' there really isn't room
for any competition."

Spokespeople for Osborne/McGraw-Hill would not speak for attribution,
but one did admit that they were pleased with the award.  "We said we
were going for `bold' and `eye-catching,' but our real target was to
produce that sick-to-your-stomach flu feeling, to give people a real
virus queasiness.  It's nice to know we succeeded."

Security specialists were equally quick to comment on the contents of
the work.  "What a thick book!" said David Chess.

"Da- I mean, darn it, where are the taxonomies?" said Winn Schwartau,
author of "Internet and Computer Ethics for Kids."  He also promised
to give us his *real* reaction "as soon as I get rid of the best of
these rugrats."

"I think more time should go by between Slade's books." - Larry
Bridwell

"How come my work didn't get mentioned?" - sarah gordon

"read it" - A. Padgett Peterson

"Should be `reviled'." - PGN

"A mythic work!  No, sorry, that should be `mythical'." - Jeff Crume

"Why are these guys misusing my name?" - Gene Spafford

"Makes a great doorstop." - Tom Sheldon

"Oooh, a foreword from spaf!" - David Chess (no relation)

"Fills an unneeded gap." - Fred Cohen

Misinformation about semi-recent viruses can be found at 
http://www.osborne.com/virus_alert/, while marketing hype is available
at http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/vrupdate.htm and 
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~rslade/vrupdate.htm.  Some real links can be
found at http://www.sherpasoft.org.uk/viruses-revealed/.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 2001   BKVR.RVW   20011013