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Malware: Fighting Malicious Code
Sinopsis :
Malicious code is a set of instructions that runs on your
computer and makes your system do something that you do
not want it to do. For example, it can delete sensitive
configuration files from your hard drive, rendering your
computer completely inoperable infect your computer and use
it as a jumping-off point to spread to all of your buddies'
computers and steal files from your machine. Malicious code in
the hands of a crafty attacker is indeed powerful. It's becoming
even more of a problem because many of the very same
factors fueling the evolution of the computer industry are
making our systems even more vulnerable to malicious code.
Specifically, malicious code writers benefit from the trends
toward mixing static data and executable instructions,
increasingly homogenous computing environments,

unprecedented connectivity, an ever-larger clueless user base,
and an unfriendly world. Skoudis addressed malicious code in
just one chapter of his previous book. Here, a dozen chapters
focus on one of the most interesting and rapidly developing
areas of computer attacks.*Chapter 11, Defender's Toolbox,
rolls together the defensive strategies described in the book.
As a bonus, Skoudis gives recipes for creating your own
malicious code analysis laboratory using cheap hardware and
software.