Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense, The

Acknowledgments

First, I would like to thank my wife Natalia for encouraging my work for over 15 years! I also thank her for accepting the lost time on all the weekends that we could have spent together while I was working on this book.

I would like to thank everybody who made this book possible. This book grew out of a series of articles and papers on computer viruses, several of which I have co-authored with other researchers over the years. Therefore, I could never adequately thank Eric Chien, Peter Ferrie, Bruce McCorkendale, and Frederic Perriot for their excellent contributions to Chapter 7 and Chapter 10.

This book could not be written without the help of many friends, great antivirus researchers, and colleagues. First and foremost, I ...