| Personal_Home_Page_-_Harrold,_Robert Massive collection of antivirus links and news. |
| 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. |
| RAV_Virus_Encyclopedia Virus Encyclopedia provided by RAV - Reliable AntiVirus. |
| Secunia_-_Virus_Information Collects virus information from multiple anti-virus vendors, and the collected information is grouped and indexed. When certain conditions are met virus alerts are generated and can be emailed. |
| Softpanorama_University_Skeptical_Antivirus_page A skeptical look at anti-virus protection. |
| Solo_Antivirus_-_Virus_encyclopedia Contains details about latest virus alerts and wide spread virus information. |
| Sophos_Virus_Analyses This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions. |
| 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. |
| Trend_Virus_Encyclopedia Trend Micro issues regular advisories regarding new viruses, including a guide to avoiding them in the first place. Site covers risk factor of the newest viruses. lists top ten virus and offers a secu |
| Virus_Bulletin News and technical articles on developments on viruses and anti-virus products. |
| Virus_Bulletin_-_Independent_Anti-virus_Advice Independent anti-virus journal and website with advice, reviews and tutorials |
| Virus_Information_Library_and_Search Database of viruses for research and informational purposes |
| Virus_or_Hoax? Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates. |
| VirusList_com Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses. |
| The_WildList_Organization_International Organization which maintains a fairly comprehensive list of computer viruses which are still found "in the wild". |
| 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 |
| BusinessWeek_Online_-_Mydoom\'s_Most_Damning_Dynamic Points out that Mydoom was so damaging only because so many individual net users were so unprotected despite education efforts that apparently do not have any significant effect on user behavior. |
| The_Art_Of_Noh A weblog on computer security, viruses, worms, trojans and other types of malicious software by Costin G. Raiu. [RSS] |
| Adobe_After_Effects Motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, DVD, multimedia, and the Web. Available on Windows and Macintosh. Site includes forums, support information, downloads and links to other resources |
| Adobe_Premiere Nonlinear video editing application available for Windows and Macintosh. Site includes forums, support information, downloads and links to other resources. |
| AIST_GmbH Digital video processing editing software Moviepack and Mediamania |
| AsfTools A GUI utility to repair, cut, join and convert ASF and WMV files. |
| Avi_to_Mpg_(Mpeg)_Video_Freeware_Encoders Converts .avi videos to high quality .mpeg (.mpg) videos. 100% freeware, runs under Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, and 2000. Additional free software - video CD and .wav to MP2 encoders. |
| Avidemux A free multi-format, cross-platform video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. News, downloads, screen-shots, forums, and documentation. |
| AVIedit_by_Alexander_Milukov AVIedit allows you to join and split avi files, extract frames and do advanced processing on AVI's. |
| AVI_IO A video capture utility that helps overcome the AVI file size limitation by capturing multiple seamless AVI files. |
| Cleaner_by_Discreet Cleaner is the industry-standard tool for importing, authoring, encoding and delivering interactive streaming media using popular streaming formats, including RealVideo, QuickTime, Windows Media, as w |
| Copy_DVD_Plus Sells software that allows the user to copy DVDs onto regular CD-Rs. |
| CyberLink Provider of digital home and video software solutions, including the PowerDVD DVD playback software for the PC. |
| Digigami,_Inc_ Producer of MPEG player and converter software for Windows 95/NT and Power Macintosh. |
| DigiStudio_Team Digital video stabilizer. |
| Digital_Video_Play MPEG2 player specially designed for cable TV broadcast automating and full screen presentations. Plays MPEG files in sequence without breaks. |
| Digital_Video_Team Digital video and photographic special effects and plugins for Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and other software platforms. |
| Discreet__codec_and_video_info Support and Services page for Discreet. Information about a range of digital video architectures and video codecs. |
| DVD_X_Player DVD player for Windows that allows users to view all movies from all regions on region-locked DVD drive. |
| DVDAfterEdit DVD editing software designed to augment and expand the capabilities of DVD authoring systems by giving access to internal DVD structures. For Macintosh only. |
| DVonSAT DV capture,compression and transmission software with video-conferencing capabilities. |
| Dynapel Developers of software for video post-production, including VideoScope, MotionPerfect, SteadyHand and SlowMotion. |
| Easy_DVD_Player Easy DVD player is a very easy to use DVD/VCD/MPEG/MPG player. |
| Easy_MPEG_&_RM_Joiner Utility that allows you to join mpeg, mpg or rm video files into one big movie file. |
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A virus can spell doom for your computer. See more computer pictures.Strange as it may sound, the computer virus is something of an Information Age marvel. On one hand, viruses show us how vulnerable we are -- a properly engineered virus can have a devastating effect, disrupting productivity and doing billions of dollars in damages. On the other hand, they show us how sophisticated and interconnected human beings have become. For example, experts estimate that the Mydoom worm infected approximately a quarter-million computers in a single day in January 2004. Back in March 1999, the Melissa virus was so powerful that it forced Microsoft and a number of other very large companies to completely turn off their e-mail systems until the virus could be contained. The ILOVEYOU virus in 2000 had a similarly devastating effect. In January 2007, a worm called Storm appeared -- by October, experts believed up to 50 million computers were infected. That's pretty impressive when you consider that many viruses are incredibly simple.More PC SecurityFirewall10 Worst VirusesComputer Security QuizWhen you listen to the news, you hear about many different forms of electronic infection. The most common are: Viruses - A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. For example, a virus might attach itself to a program such as a spreadsheet program. Each time the spreadsheet program runs, the virus runs, too, and it has the chance to reproduce (by attaching to other programs) or wreak havoc. E-mail viruses - An e-mail virus travels as an attachment to e-mail messages, and usually replicates itself by automatically mailing itself to dozens of people in the victim's e-mail address book. Some e-mail viruses don't even require a double-click -- they launch when you view the infected message in the preview pane of your e-mail software [source: Johnson]. Trojan horses - A Trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to do one thing (it may claim to be a game) but instead does damage when you run it (it may erase your hard disk). Trojan horses have no way to replicate automatically. Worms - A worm is a small piece of software that uses computer networks and security holes to replicate itself. A copy of the worm scans the network for another machine that has a specific security hole. It copies itself to the new machine using the security hole, and then starts replicating from there, as well. In this article, we will discuss viruses -- both "traditional" viruses and e-mail viruses -- so that you can learn how they work and understand how to protect yourself. Next Page Inside this Article Introduction to How Computer Viruses Work Virus Origins Virus History Virus Evolution E-mail Viruses Worms How to Protect Your Computer from Viruses Lots More Information See all Computer & Internet Security articles digg_url = 'http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm'; digg more 
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