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Malware Analysis for Administrators
by S. G. Masood
last updated May 20, 2004

The threat of malicious software can easily be considered as the
greatest threat to Internet security. Earlier, viruses were, more or
less, the only form of malware. Nowadays, the threat has grown to
include network-aware worms, trojans, DDoS agents, IRC Controlled bots,
spyware, and so on. The infection vectors have also changed and grown
and malicious agents now use techniques like email harvesting, browser
exploits, operating system vulnerabilities, and P2P networks to spread.
A relatively large percentage of the software that a normal internet
user encounters in his online journeys is or can be malicious in some
kind of way.

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1780

-- 
Joe Klemmer 
Unix System/Network Administrator & Ad Hoc Programmer