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Malicious Mobile Code Virus Protection for Windows

By Roger A. Grimes
First Edition August 2001
Pages: 542
ISBN 10: 1-56592-682-X | ISBN 13: 9781565926820
(Average of 4 Customer Reviews)

Book description

"Malicious mobile code" is a new term to describe all sorts of destructive programs: viruses, worms, trojans, and rogue Internet content. Malicious mobile code is more prevalent today than ever before, and both home users and system administrators need to be on the alert to protect their network or company against attacks. Malicious Mobile Code reveals what such code can and can't do and how to recognize, remove, and prevent it. Readers learn effective strategies, tips, and tricks for securing any system.
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Malicious mobile code is a new term to describe all sorts of destructive programs: viruses, worms, Trojans, and rogue Internet content. Until fairly recently, experts worried mostly about computer viruses that spread only through executable files, not data files, and certainly not through email exchange. The Melissa virus and the Love Bug proved the experts wrong, attacking Windows computers when recipients did nothing more than open an email. Today, writing programs is easier than ever, and so is writing malicious code. The idea that someone could write malicious code and spread it to 60 million computers in a matter of hours is no longer a fantasy. The good news is that there are effective ways to thwart Windows malicious code attacks, and author Roger Grimes maps them out in Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows. His opening chapter on the history of malicious code and the multi-million dollar anti-virus industry sets the stage for a comprehensive rundown on today's viruses and the nuts and bolts of protecting a system from them. He ranges through the best ways to configure Windows for maximum protection, what a DOS virus can and can't do, what today's biggest threats are, and other important and frequently surprising information. For example, how many people know that joining a chat discussion can turn one's entire computer system into an open book? Malicious Mobile Code delivers the strategies, tips, and tricks to secure a system against attack. It covers:

The current state of the malicious code writing and cracker community
How malicious code works, what types there are, and what it can and cannot do
Common anti-virus defenses, including anti-virus software
How malicious code affects the various Windows operating systems, and how to recognize, remove, and prevent it
Macro viruses affecting MS Word, MS Excel, and VBScript
Java applets and ActiveX controls
Enterprise-wide malicious code protection
Hoaxes
The future of malicious mobile code and how to combat such code

These days, when it comes to protecting both home computers and company networks against malicious code, the stakes are higher than ever. Malicious Mobile Code is the essential guide for securing a system from catastrophic loss.

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Malicious Mobile Code Review, August 21 2003

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Submitted by Kevin Steiner, Professor of Network Security, Capitol College. [Respond | View]

If you need an indepth look at Malicious Code, this is THE book. This well-rounded, well thought-out reference should be in every Security Professional's Tool Kit. Almost everything is here in a "nutshell."

Malicious Mobile Code Review, August 21 2003

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Submitted by Kevin Steiner, Professor of Network Security, Capitol College. [Respond | View]

If you need an indepth look at Malicious Code, this is THE book. This well-rounded, well thought-out reference should be in every Security Professional's Tool Kit. Almost everything is here in a "nutshell."

Malicious Mobile Code Review, February 25 2003

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Submitted by Kenneth Wilcox [Respond | View]

Need protection for your insecure operating systems? This is your contraceptive! It looks like a technical book, it weighs as much as a technical book, it reads like a technical book. It must be a technical book. This is not a book you can sit down and read cover-to-cover, it has taken me several tries to read it. BUT it IS very informative I have yet to pick this book up without learning something. It is as scarry as the next Stephen King or Dean Koontz novel.

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Malicious Mobile Code Review, September 13 2002

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Submitted by Jason A. Powell, CISSP (Cincinnati, OH) [Respond | View]

Malicious Mobile Code is very dry reading, but probably due more to the nature of the subject matter than any other factor. Although this book took almost twice as long to read in comparison to similarly voluminous O'Reilly books, it contained a wealth of knowlege, wisdom and common sense, even for this veteran security practitioner.

My only real gripe about this publication is the sheer volume of grammatical errors and typos; the second edition of this book should be much easier to read.

Overall, a very good book for IT professionals of all levels of experience, and it is written well enough to be of value for most savvy end-users, as well. It has earned a permanent place in my personal workplace library, and I expect that it will be referenced often.

Media reviews "This book is indeed an eye opener for the normal computer user, and the junior system administrator. Laid out in detail, and covering almost every aspect of malicious mobile code out there today this book should indeed be read by everyone who owns a computer. Only through user education will one half of the battle be won against the never ending tide of malicious mobile code...this book is highly recommended for reading due to the plethora of viruses, macro viruses, and client side exploits out there today. It's gets an SFDC 8/10 from me."
--Security Forums.com, October 2003
http://www.security-forums.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9216

"Need protection for your insecure operating systems? This is your contraceptive! It looks like a technical book, it weighs as much as a technical book, it reads like a technical book. It must be a technical book. This is not a book you can sit down and read cover-to-cover, it has taken me several tries to read it. BUT it IS very informative. I have yet to pick this book up without learning something. It is as scary as the next Stephen King or Dean Koontz novel."
--Kenneth Wilcox, Boise Software Developers Group, Feb 2003

"Offers excellent understanding of the subject matter."
--Mike James, Computer Shopper, September 2002

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