Battle against malicious code

Author: (USA) Skoudis (Skoudis/E.) / (USA) Zelter (Zelter/L.) / Chen Guimin, et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Have you ever experienced: Your hard drive being maliciously formatted after visiting a website? The IE browser's title bar changing to another website's name? Your default homepage becoming an unknown URL and unable to be restored? A trojan program being installed on your machine without your knowledge? The registry editor being disabled? Your computer system being completely messed up? All of these are caused by malicious code! Let's join hands and pick up this book to fight against the despised MALWARE (short for "malicious software," software specifically designed to damage systems, even causing system crashes, such as viruses or trojan horses). That's right! This is indeed a battle! This book is the fine weapon you need to win this war. It aims to equip you with the tools and techniques required to prevent, detect, and handle attacks on your computer systems and networks by malicious code. This book provides:
· Solutions and examples targeting both UNIX and Windows systems.
· Practical, time-tested, and real-world actionable solutions to ensure system security.
· Comprehensive guidance on setting up a free malicious code analysis lab tailored to your needs, saving you from attacks! System administrators, network professionals, home computer users, and especially those in the security industry all need to leverage this book to defend their networks against increasingly fierce attacks. This book aims to arm you with the tools and techniques needed to prevent, detect, and handle attacks on computer systems and networks by malicious code. It discusses how to proactively ensure system security to prevent such attacks, how to discover malicious code that has infiltrated your defenses, and how to analyze MALWARE samples you may encounter at any time. This book emphasizes practicality, providing detailed measures to protect your system from malicious code attacks, which have been tested over time and proven to be effective. By following the techniques in this book, you can fully construct a defense toolkit to combat malicious code found anywhere. System administrators, network professionals, home computer users, and especially those in the security industry all need to leverage this book to defend their networks against increasingly fierce attacks.