Product Overview
Computer Virus Books We are witnessing on escalating computer-virus arms race - virus, vaccine, counter-virus - that has created a whole anti-virus industry.. software programs, consultants, and many books. The most reliable intelligence from this conflict has been collected in Computer Viruses, Worms, Data Diddlers, Killer Programs, and Other Threats to Your System, by John McAfee. When corporations in Silicon Valley discover a virus, they call McAfee, who arrives in a specially outfitted virus-buster van. His book, written for the computer-security trade, gives a comprehensive dossier of all known viral strains, post and present (up to fall 1989), and much insider scuttlebutt that is very readable for the lay user. On the other hand, Virus! by Allan Lundell is a wild, irresponsible, and highly speculative book that dramatically exaggerates the subtle attributes of computer viruses, and therefore is the more revealing one, in a vaudeville way. It tackles the question, What does a computer virus moon? Treat what is said as well- founded rumor. There's probably more in these two books than most want to know, but for both computer crime- and computer life-watchers, the trail begins here.
