Computer security

This section contains a selection of information related to computer system security.

Viruses:

	The Virus Mini-FAQ Information about viruses from the newsgroup alt.comp.virus.    ¤  23 Aug 1999. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.faqs.org/
	The Virus FAQ More questions and answers about viruses from the newsgroup alt.comp.virus.    ¤  29 Feb 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.sherpasoft.org.uk/acvFAQ/
	Dr. Solomon The home of Dr. Solomon's (commercial) antivirus package.
	The Virus Bulletin Which has lots of up-to-date information about viruses.
	Datafellows A good site for information about viruses as well as the latest version of the F-Prot antivirus utility.
	Trend Micro A site which has a good selection of virus information.
	Stiller Research Yet another good source of virus information.
	AVERT Labs The Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team, a good source of up-to-date virus information and antivirus tools.
	The comp.virus newsgroup A good source of up-to-date information about viruses.
	alt.comp.virus Another newsgroup providing up-to-date information about viruses.

Data compression:

	The Data Compression FAQ Information about data compression: what it is, how it works and so on.    ¤  5 Sep 1999. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.compression.html
	Data compression software A selection of data compression tools.
	Compression resources A good list of pointers to compression resources and information.
	Info-ZIP The home of the free Info-ZIP compression software.
	PKWare The home site for Phil Katz's well-known compression software (PKZip/PKUnzip, PKLite and others).
	WinZip The home of the popular WinZip compression tool for Windows.
	The comp.compression newsgroup A newsgroup which discusses data compression issues.

Cryptography:

	The PGP FAQ Frequently asked questions about Pretty Good Privacy, Phil Zimmermann's well-known public key cryptography package, from the comp.security.pgp newsgroup.    ¤  22 Oct 1998. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/
	An Introduction to Cryptography A good description of the basic principles of crytography.    ¤  18 Nov 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.ssh.fi/tech/crypto/intro.html
	Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) 6.58 A Windows version of the well-known free file encryption tool. This is the international version, which is identical to the US version except that it was compiled outside the US and is therefore not subject to the US government's attempts to prevent encryption technology being exported. The source code is also provided elsewhere on this CD.    ¤  Aug 2000. Freeware. Home site: http://www.pgpi.com/
	GNU Privacy Guard A tool to encrypt files (e.g. for use as email attachments) with a drag-and-drop interface. Just drop files onto this application and they will be encrypted as self-decrypting EXE files, which will regenerate the original file when executed if you can supply the encryption passphrase. The source code (for Borland C++ Builder) is included.    ¤  May 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://www.gnupg.org/
	ACrypt A tool to encrypt files (e.g. for use as email attachments) with a drag-and-drop interface. Just drop files onto this application and they will be encrypted as self-decrypting EXE files, which will regenerate the original file when executed if you can supply the encryption passphrase. The source code (for Borland C++ Builder) is included.    ¤  Dec 1999. Freeware. Home site: http://www.datarescue.com/
	SSH Communications Security cryptography pages A good starting point if you want to know more about cryptography.
	Seven Locks Software A site which provides a lot of information about encryption.
	PGP The home site for the PGP package (but see http://www.pgpi.com/ if you want to download the software from outside the USA).
	RSA Data Security A site with a good selection of information about cryptography.
	sci.crypt A newsgroup dedicated to cryptography-related issues.