Additional Reading

• Grimes’s Malicious Mobile Code (O’Reilly & Associates, 2001) is a solid text that discusses Windows viruses and Trojans. It focuses on the desktop, not perimeter or server scanning, but it’s a good guide to desktop virus protection.

• Viruses Revealed (by Harley, Spafford, and Slade; Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2001) is an authoritative reference covering malicious code, including some fascinating historical material and a useful guide to choosing antivirus products.

• Rob Rosenberger’s Virus Myths (http://www.vmyths.com) is an occasionally entertaining site dedicated to deflating the hype surrounding virus outbreaks. Although often abrasive, his points about the media’s unfortunate tendency to overhype trivial virus threats are well taken.