_PDF_ Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

Malware: Fighting Malicious Code
Description :
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 everlarger
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,
&quotDefnder's Toolbox,&quotrolls 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.