| 1. | Team Anti-Virus | | | An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers. www.teamanti-virus.org |
| 3. | European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) | | | Combines universities, industry, media, technical, security, and legal experts from civil and military government and law enforcement as well as privacy protection organizations whose objectives are to unite non-commercial efforts against writing and proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and against computer crime and fraud. www.eicar.org |
| 7. | Index of Virus Alerts | | | A free world-wide service run in the public interest warning of Viruses as soon as they appear, usually within a few hours. www.fabian.com.mt |
| 8. | Virus or Hoax? | | | Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates. virusall.com |
| 9. | Antivirus World | | | Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads. www.antivirusworld.com |
| 10. | Computer Virus Myths | | | The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends. www.vmyths.com |
| 11. | Examples of Malicious Computer Programs | | | Long essay that describes harm done by major computer viruses or worms, and discusses the nonexistent or lenient punishment for the authors or distributors of these malicious programs. www.rbs2.com |
| 15. | IBM's Antivirus Research | | | News and information about virus prevention, the latest in IBM's research, virus alerts, and lists of the latest hoaxes and hype. www.research.ibm.com |
| 16. | Windows Startup Tasks | | | Massive listing of tasks that may be running on a Windows system at startup, including tasks which may be created by viruses, worms, spyware, and trojans www.pacs-portal.co.uk |
| 18. | Personal Home Page - Szor, Peter | | | Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses. www.peterszor.com |
| 19. | EICAR test file | | | Provides a standardized test file for signature based virus detection software. This file can be used to verify the correct operation of antivirus software without unneccessary exposure to viruses. www.eicar.org |
| 22. | Anti-virus HelpGuide | | | Information on the latest viruses, hoaxes, anti-virus software, updates and cleaning tools. virus.helpguide.info |
| 24. | MSN Messenger Viruses | | | Information and removal instructions for various viruses and worms designed to attack MSN Messenger. www.happy-messaging.com |
| 25. | TestVirus.org | | | Tool to automatically send EICAR test files in various formats to a given email address. www.testvirus.org |
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