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Subject: References to computer viruses
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 09:29:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 09:29:00 1986
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On 15.Feb.'86 I asked for information and literature about so-called
computer viruses (or worms or Trojan Horses).

For those who are interested in the subject I picked up the
references and names I found in the responses.

Literature:
============

  Fred Cohen
  "Computer Viruses - Theory and Experiments"
  University of Southern California, 31.Aug.'84

  John F. Schoch, Jon Attupp
  "Notes on the Worms programs - some early experience with a
   distributed computation"
  Tech Report SSL-80-3, Xerox PARC, May '80
  also: CACM 25:3, March '82

  Proceedings of the 7th DoD/NBS Computer Security Conference
  24-26 Sept.'84
  --> Fred Cohen : "Computer Viruses"

  Computer Fraud & Security Bulletin (GB), vol.6, no.7, p.8-10, May '84
  "Communications-security vulnerabilities"

  Patrick H. Wood, Stephen G. Kochan
  "UNIX system security"
  Hayden Book Company, '85, p.44

  Ken Thompson's Turing Award lecture, 1984
  --> CACM Aug.'84, vol.27, no.8, p.761-763

  B. Randell (Edt.)
  "Security and Privacy"
  Newcastle


Incomplete/vague references:
-----------------------------

  Baily
  "The mathematical theory of epidemics"

  Scientific American 1985 : Computer Recreation section
  something about CoreWars a game related to viruses

  Ted Nelson : "Computer Lib"
  about 1977, contains something about CoreWars


Science Fiction:
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  John Brunner : "Shockwave Rider"
  David Gerald : "When Harlie was one"
  Tom Ryan     : "The adolesence of P-1"


Hope this helps ...             frank @ unido.uucp
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