Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

This book devotes a full chapter to each type of malware-viruses, worms, malicious code delivered through Web browsers and e-mail clients, backdoors, Trojan horses, user-level RootKits, and kernel-level manipulation. You'll learn about the characteristics and methods of attack, evolutionary trends, and how to defend against each type of attack. Real-world examples of malware attacks help you translate thought into action, and a special defender's toolbox chapter shows how to build your own inexpensive code analysis lab to investigate new malware specimens on your own. Throughout, Skoudis' clear, engaging style makes the material approachable and enjoyable to learn. This book includes Solutions and examples that cover both UNIX(R) and Windows(R)Practical, time-tested, real-world actions you can take to secure your systems instructions for building your own inexpensive malware code analysis lab so you can get familiar with attack and defensive tools harmlessly!