Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows 
by Roger A. Grimes


Unconfirmed error reports are from readers. They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely
the opinion of the reader.


This page was updated December 20, 2001.


Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


UNCONFIRMED errors and suggestions from readers:


(15)  first sentence;  1.4.1

I asked him how a ninth grader learned enough about assembly language programming and computer booting to write a virus?

This isn't a question, so it should have a period.


(15)  3rd paragraph;  1.4.2
"For many malicious hackers it is a right of passage, a stage of maturity..."

I've always seen this in print as 'rite of passage'


{390}  2nd paragraph;
MS Exchange uses EDB files not mdb, "private.mdb" should read priv.edb


[426]  second paragraph;
Aids needles are not being left in mailboxes or gas pump handles. 

AIDS should be capitalized.


(426)  3rd paragraph;
Secondly, Disney's the number one tourist attraction in the world. They don't need to test marketing. 
should be:
They don't need to do test marketing.


(437)  4th paragraph;
Now its time to discuss the objectives of the plan. 
should be: 
"Now it's time..."


(451)  3rd paragraph;
All good scanners take extra precaution to protect itself from infection and third-party manipulation. 
Should it be "precautions"  (plural)?


(464)  3rd paragraph;
"I am a firm believe that all HTML content should be disabled in email." 
Should say 
"... firm believer..."


(475)  middle of page;
"As of Flash 5, _highquality has been superceded by _quality, which may ..."

change to "superseded ..."


(610)  middle of page;

MIME content type for XML dat sent via XML.send( ) and XML.sendAndLoad( )

change to "XML data"


(chapter 11)  ActiveX Section, 2nd para.; The first sentence reads:

"Although began as a reactionary response to competitive pressures"

It should read:

"Although begun as a reactionary response to competitive pressures"


{chapter 11}  ActiveX Controls Section, 1st para;

"many different languages, including: C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++, 
Delphi, Powersoft, Java,..."

I don't think Powersoft is a language.  PowerSoft is/was Sybase's tools 
division. (see http://www.idg.net/english/crd_powersoft_43.html )


(chapter 11)  ActiveX Controls Section, 1st para;

"and lose the portability advantaged gained by Java."

should read:

"and lose the portability advantage gained by Java."