Virus Encyclopedias

Virus Encyclopedias Links

• Symantec AntiVirus Research Center Virus Encyclopedia site maintained by Symantec, makers of the popular Norton AntiVirus product.
  
• McAfee Virus Information McAfee's virus information center. Good descriptions of common viruses.
  
  
• 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.
  
• Sophos Virus Analyses This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
  
• Virus Central Software, alerts, news, research and descriptions, from the provider of Dr. Solomon's anti-virus software. Part of Network Associates.
  
• 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 security alert archive.
  
• CIAC Virus Database Dept of Energy's CIAC virus database. Not searchable and not as complete or as up-to-date as some of the vendor sites.
  
• 4Virus Fight back with the latest cybercures from IBM Antivirus, Symantec, eSafe and Norman. Learn the truth about viruses from Virus Hoaxes and Virus Bulletin.
  
• Trend Micro Virus Encyclopedia Encyclopedia maintained by Trend Micro. Good, clear descriptions of common viruses.
  
• AntiViral Toolkit Pro Virus Encyclopedia An up to date searchable virus database with very clear, complete descriptions.
  
• Panda Software Virus Laboratory Up to date and in-depth descriptions of the most common viruses by Panda Software, makers of Panda Antivirus Platinum.
  
• AOL Virus Defense Dedicated to protecting from AOL specific virus and trojans.
  
• Computer Associates Virus Encyclopedia Computer Associates alphabetical virus database. Searchable with clear descriptions of common viruses.
  
• Data Fellows Virus Information Centre A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range of anti-virus software. (Data Fellows Corporation)