Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows

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.

惡意移動代碼是一個新術語，用於描述各種破壞性程序：病毒、蠕蟲、特洛伊木馬和惡意互聯網內容。直到最近，專家們主要擔心僅通過可執行文件而不是數據文件，當然也不是通過電子郵件傳播的電腦病毒。然而，Melissa病毒和Love Bug病毒證明了專家們的錯誤，當收件人僅僅打開一封電子郵件時，它們就會攻擊Windows計算機。如今，編寫惡意代碼比以往任何時候都更容易。有人能夠編寫惡意代碼並在幾個小時內傳播到6000萬台計算機，這已不再是一個幻想。

好消息是，有有效的方法來阻止Windows惡意代碼攻擊，作者羅傑·格萊姆斯在《惡意移動代碼：Windows病毒防護》一書中詳細介紹了這些方法。他在開篇章中講述了惡意代碼的歷史和價值數百萬美元的反病毒行業，為今天的病毒和保護系統的基本知識做了全面介紹。他介紹了配置Windows以實現最大保護的最佳方法，DOS病毒的能力和限制，當今最大的威脅以及其他重要且常常令人驚訝的信息。例如，有多少人知道參與聊天討論可能會讓整個計算機系統變成一本公開的書？

《惡意移動代碼》提供了保護系統免受攻擊的策略、技巧和訣竅。它涵蓋了以下內容：
- 惡意代碼編寫和駭客社區的現狀
- 惡意代碼的工作原理、類型以及能力和限制
- 常見的反病毒防禦措施，包括反病毒軟件
- 惡意代碼對各種Windows操作系統的影響，以及如何識別、刪除和預防它
- 影響MS Word、MS Excel和VBScript的宏病毒
- Java小程序和ActiveX控件
- 企業級惡意代碼防護
- 惡意移動代碼的未來發展以及如何對抗此類代碼

如今，在保護家庭計算機和企業網絡免受惡意代碼攻擊方面，風險比以往任何時候都更高。《惡意移動代碼》是保護系統免受災難性損失的必備指南。