To: VIRUS-L@LEHIGH.EDU Subject: VIRUS-L Digest V5 #162 -------- VIRUS-L Digest Sunday, 11 Oct 1992 Volume 5 : Issue 162 Today's Topics: Antiviral contact list (general) Conference announcement - Ides of March VIRUS-L is a moderated, digested mail forum for discussing computer virus issues; comp.virus is a non-digested Usenet counterpart. Discussions are not limited to any one hardware/software platform - diversity is welcomed. Contributions should be relevant, concise, polite, etc. (The complete set of posting guidelines is available by FTP on cert.sei.cmu.edu or upon request.) Please sign submissions with your real name. Send contributions to VIRUS-L@LEHIGH.EDU. Information on accessing anti-virus, documentation, and back-issue archives is distributed periodically on the list. A FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) document and all of the back-issues are available by anonymous FTP on cert.org (192.88.209.5). Administrative mail (comments, suggestions, and so forth) should be sent to me at: . Ken van Wyk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 92 15:18:35 -0700 From: rslade@sfu.ca Subject: Antiviral contact list (general) As always, corrections, updates and additions welcome and needed. Abacus 5370 52nd St., SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512 USA 800-451-4319 616-698-0330 fax: 616-698-0325 Computer Viruses: a high tech disease, Ralf Burger, 1988, 1-55755-043-3 (no longer available) Virus Secure for Windows (no longer available) Computer Viruses and Data Protection, Ralf Burger, 1-55755-123-5 ACM Press Computers Under Attack: intruders, worms and viruses, Peter J. Denning, ed., 0-201-53067-8 A.C.C Inc. West Orange, New Jersey, 07052 USA Contact Wendy Schwartz 1-201-325-7985 or 1-201-736-7109 fax# 1-516-378-6124 V-Phage hard disk write protect Sandy Jenish, Dave Reid (VP Marketing) Advanced Gravis Computer Technology 7033 Antrim Avenue Burnaby, B. C. V5J 4M5 604-434-7274 Telecopier: (604) 434-7809 Advanced Security for PC and Mac American Eagle Publications P. O. Box 41401 Tucson, Arizona 85717 USA 602-888-4959 The little black book of computer viruses, Mark Ludwig Antivirus Methods Congress Dick Lefkon New York University dklefkon@well.sf.ca.us Borland/Ashton-Tate 20101 Hamilton Ave. Torrance, CA 90509-9972 USA 213-329-9989 BBS: 213-324-2188 (920908 area changed to 310, number referred to 408-431-2275) or Department CR-10 52 Oakland Avenue East Hartford CT 06108 Control Room system management package with antiviral utility ASP Press PO Box 81270 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA 412-422-4134 cohen@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au (Fred Cohen) Fred Cohen's books Autrec Inc. 4305 - 40 Enterprise Drive, Suite A Winston-Salem, NC 27106 USA (919) 759-9493 PC-SAFE II half card security board B.R.M. Israel V-Analyst checksumming program Bantam Books 666 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10103 USA V.I.R.U.S. Protection, Pamela Kane, 0-553-34799-3 CHRISTOPHER MATEJA BITS-N-BYTES COMPUTER SERVICES 333 15TH STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11215 ( USA ) BITNET: INTERNET: COMPUSERVE: 75230,476 virus database (product not yet available) Brightwork Development Inc. 766 Shrewsbury Ave. Jerral Center West Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 USA 201-530-0440 800-552-9876 (US only) fax: 201-530-0622 Sitelock, Novell add-on operation restricting software $495 British Computer Virus Research Centre 12 Guildford Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3LS, England Tel: 0273-26105 Joe Hirst Virus Simulation Suite, Eliminator/Virus Monitor/Virus Clean see also ICVI, Thecia Systems Laboratory of Computer Virology Bulgarian Academy of Science Address: Bulgaria, Sofia 1113 acad. G. Bontchev str. bl.8 rm. 104 tel: +359-2-719212 bbs: +359-2-737484 (9600bps) Assen Sharlandjiev EUnet: assen@virbus.bg FidoNet: 2:359/110@fidonet.org Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) Alana Foster, Newsletter Editor c/o Central Guaranty Trust 1770 Market St., 6th Floor Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1N2 fax: (902) 422-9290 (no known specialty, included for info only) Carmel Software Engineering EPG International Hans-Stiessberger-Strasse 3 D-8013 Haar by Muenchen head office Israel? Turbo Anti-Virus Set, scanner vaccine and change checker (including boot) CARO = Computer Antivirus Research Organisation Vesselin Bontschev (used to be Academy of science in Sofia, now University of Hamburg) Christoph Fischer (University of Karlsruhe Micro-BIT Virus Center) Fridrik Skulason (University of Reykjavik) Morton Swimmer (University of Hamburg) Michael Weiner (University of Vienna) Dr. Alan Solomon (S & S International, UK) Prof. Klaus Brunnstein (University of Hamburg) Christoph Fischer Micro-BIT Virus Center University of Karlsruhe Zirkel 2 W-7500 KARLSRUHE 1 Germany +49 721 376422 Phone +49 721 32550 FAX email: ry15@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Central Point Software 15220 N. W. Greenbrier Parkway #200 Beaverton, OR 97006 USA 503-690-8088 800-445-4064 Central Point Anti-Virus Certus International 13110 Shaker Square Cleveland, Ohio 44120 USA 216-752-8181 216-752-8183 Technical Support BBS 216-752-8134 fax 216-752-8188 800-722-8737 Mike Mytnick, Cleveland Michael Blumenfeld (404)434-1858 Peter Trippett, 4295370 on MCI mail operation restricting software, particularly for LANs Cheyenne Software 55 Bryant Avenue Roslyn, NY 11576 USA 800-243-9462 516-484-5110 InocuLAN ComNETco, Inc. 29 Olcott Square Bernardsville, NJ 07924 USA 201-543-4060 ViruSafe-Anti-Viral Software (cf EliaShim) mail undeliverable Computer Emergency Response Team Kenneth R. van Wyk Moderator VIRUS-L/comp.virus Technical Coordinator, Computer Emergency Response Team Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University krvw@CERT.SEI.CMU.EDU (work) ken@OLDALE.PGH.PA.US (home) (412) 268-7090 (CERT 24 hour hotline) Computer Security Connection (CSC) National Security Associates, Inc. (NSAi) mbrsvcs @ incomsec.org FAX 703-758-8338 $30.00 registration fee and $12.50 per hour of access time. Computer Technologies NZ PO Box 3598 Wellinton, New Zealand Jeremy Buckley jerry@tornado.gen.nz jerry%tornado.gen.nz@mailhost.comp.vuw.ac.nz Simon McAuliffe sai@tornado.gen.nz NOVASAFE COMRAC Victor Smith 31 2503 21388 BBS 31-3200-48835, Virus Rescue, Node: 2:282/401, 9:310/2 or 31-3200-48831, Paradise Island Gobbler II scanner CSM Management and Consulting 3031 Main St. Vancouver, B. C. V5T 3G8 604-879-4162 Telecopier: 604-874-1668 Overlord product not available Cybec Roger Riordan PO Box 82 Hampton, Vic. 3188 Australia Tel. 03 521-0655 Fax. 03-521-0727 VET antiviral CyberSoft 210 West 12th Avenue Conshohocken, PA 19428-1464 (215) 825-4748 FAX (215) 825-6785 VFIND UNIX antiviral Cylink 110 S. Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA 408-735-5800 telecopier: 408-738-8269 SecurePC - half card DES encryptor PROGRAM CHAIRPERSON: DPMA Virus Conference, 1991 Richard G. Lefkon NYU, DPMA Fin. Ind. Ch. 609 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025 (212) 663-2315 Data Fellows Ltd Wavulinintie 10 SF-00210 Helsinki, FINLAND tel +358-0-692 3622 fax +358-0-670 156 Ari Hypponen, hyde@ngs.fi Data security consulting (Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, LANs) Anti-virus consulting F-PROT SF -- The Scandinavian version of the F-PROT anti-viral package, supporting Finnish, Swedish, and English George Davidsohn and Son Inc. 20 Exchange Place, 27th Floor New York, NY 10005 USA 212-422-4100 Telecopier 212-422-1953 warren@worlds.com Vaccine Version 5.00 - Anti-Viral Software. DECUS Canada Security SIG Robert Slade, Editor 3118 Baird Road North Vancouver, BC V7K 2G6 Delta Base Enterprises 9800A - 140th St. Surrey, B. C. V3T 4M5 604-582-1592 Fax: (604) 582-0101 CIS# 72137,603 Bangkok Security Associates BBS: 662-255-5981 Computer Security Associates (803)-796-1935 Lannatec Associates Inc, 166 Anna Avenue, Ottawa, Ont. K1Z 7V2 (613)-724-5978. Victor Charlie 5.0 - change detection Digital Development Corporation "virus checking" add-in board Digital Dispatch, Inc. 55 Lakeland Shores Road Lakeland, Minn 55043-9601 612-436-1000 800-221-8091 Antigen, Data Physician, Novirus-Anti-viral software Director Technologies Inc. 906 University Place Evanston, IL 60201 USA Disk Defender-Half-Slot Virus Write-Interrupt Device EICAR = European Institute of Computer Antivirus Research The address of the secretariat will be in Belgium. As an interim solution you might contact CARO. EliaShim Microcomputers 520 W. Hwy. 436, #1180-30 Altamonte Springs, Florida USA 407-682-1587 fax: 407-869-1409 VirusSafe - TSR scanner (cf ComNETco?) Bob Bosen Enigma Logic Inc. 2151 Salvio Street, #301 Concord, CA 94565 USA (94520?) Tel: (415) 827-5707 (800) 333-4416 (not from Canada) FAX: (415) 827-2593 Internet: 71435.1777@COMPUSERVE.COMrbour Rd. Waichai, Hong Kong Business Phone: (852) 827 6977 Fax: (852) 824 3200 markets Mace Vaccine-Anti-viral software, Disklock hard disk security also Untouchable, a renaming of V-Analyst by B.R.M. Technologies, Israel Fink Enterprises 11 Glen Cameron Road, Unit 11 Thornhill, Ontario L3T 4N3 416-764-5648 Telecopier: 416-764-5649 IRIS Antivirus (from Israel, cf Techmar) Fischer International Systems Corporation 4073 Merchantile Avenue; Naples, Florida 33942. Watchdog Foley Hi-Tech Systems 172 Amber Drive San Francisco, CA 94131 (415) 826-6084 (415) 826-1707 BBS (415) 826-1706 FAX Safety Disk FoundationWare 2135 Renrock Rd. Cleveland, OH 44118 USA Vaccine 1.2-Anti-viral software mail undeliverable, now Certus Fresh Technology 1478 North Tech Blvd., Suite 101 Gilbert, Arizona 85234 USA 800-79FRESH (793-7374) (not working) Fax: 602-497-4200 AntiVirus Assist (repackaging of McAfee NETSCAN and CLEAN) Gee Wiz Software Company c/o Mrs. Janey Huie 10 Manton Avenue East Brunswick, NJ 08816 USA Dprotect-Anti-Trojan Software Gilmore Systems P.O. Box 3831 Beverly Hills, CA 90212-0831 U.S.A. Voice: (213) 275-8006 Data: (213) 276-5263 (920908 area now 310, connects to fax) FICHECK/MFICHECK change detection software post box defunct 920810 (company too?) Gavin Godby Programmer/Analyst Rm 3-10 Ag. For. Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2P5 email: BITNET: USERGAVN@UALTAMTS Internet: USERGAVN@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca SUZY ANTIVIR boot sector change detection/replacement Patricia M. Hoffman 3333 Bowers Ave Suite 130 Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA Tel. : 1-408-988-3773 FAX : 1-408-988-2438 BBS : 1-408-244-0813 75300.3005@compuserve.com Virus Summary Document also distributed by: Roger Aucoin Vacci Virus 84 Hammond Street Waltham, MA 02154 Voice: 1-617-893-8282 FAX : 1-617-969-0385 Denny Kirk Hyper Technologies 211 - 3030 Lincoln Coquitlam, B. C. 604-464-8680 Integrity still in production, not yet available IBM High Integrity Computing Lab Thomas J. Watson Research Center P. O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, New York USA 10598 Bill Arnold, author David Chess CHESS@YKTVMV.IBM.COM, CHESS@YKTVMV.BITNET VIRSCAN *Note* - customers should contact IBM rep, not HICL directly Intel Corp. 3065 Bowers Ave. Santa Clara, CA 95051 USA 503-629-7000 Sales: 800-538-3373 44-793-431-155 BBS: 503-645-6275 44-793-432-955 Fax: 800-458-6231 503-629-7580 44-793-431-166 FaxBACK800-525-3019 44-793-432-509 503-629-7576 Pay: 900-288-7700 ($30 per call) 44-793-431-144 44-793-421-777 (French) 44-793-421-333 (German) LANProtect 1.0 International Microcomputer Software Inc. (IMSI) 1938 Fourth Street San Rafael, CA 94901 USA 415-454-7101 800-833-4674 BBS 415-454-2893 VirusCure Plus Computer Virus Info Group Information Security Research Centre Faculty of Information Technology Queensland University of Technology Box 2434 Brisbane 4001 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 7 864-2111 Fax: +61 7 864-1507 Wayne Boxall boxall@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au boxall@qut.edu.au 864-2095 International Computer Security Association (ICSA) National Computer Security Association (NCSA) Suite 33, 5435 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20015 USA David Stang 800-488-4595 202-364-8252 fax: 202-364-1320 75300.3104@CompuServe.COM (Charles Rutstein) 75300.2673@CompuServe.COM (David Stang) Virus News and Reviews journal "Executive Guide to Computer Viruses" ($24.95) and various publications Programs - Virus Analysis Toolbox, ViruSchool and V-Base BBS currently not in operation (920616) International Computer Virus Institute 1257 Siskiyou Boulevard, Suite 179 Ashland, OR 97520 USA 503-488-3237 503-482-3284 BBS 503-488-2251 Eliminator anti-viral, virus simulators plus books and consulting see also British Computer Virus Research Centre, Joe Hirst International Security Technology Inc. 515 Madison Avenue, #3200 New York, NY 10022 USA 212-288-3101 Virus-Pro Interpath Corporation Cylene-4-Anti-Viral software, no longer produced defunct, cf McAfee IP Technologies 3710 S. Susan St., #100 Santa Ana, CA 92704 USA 714-545-9001 Virus Guard Johnson Computer Systems, Inc. 20 Dinwiddie Place Newport News, Virginia 23602 (804) 872-9583 PCVAULT software write protection Laboratory of Computer Virology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ul. Acad. G. Bontchev, bl. 8, rm. 104 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria Phone: +359-2-719212 BBS: +359-2-737484 (Virus Busters) FidoNet: 2:359/110 EUnet: user@virbus.uucp where user is one of the following: postmaster - the general account eugene - the boss assen - the communications guy shu \ ivan ) - the programmers michail / katrin - public relations Lasertrieve, Inc. 395 Main Street Metuchen, NJ 08840 USA Viralarm-Anti-Viral Software moved (defunct?) LeeMah DataCom Security Corp. 3948 Trust Way Hayward, CA 94545 USA 415-786-0790 Stephen A. Lentz (602) 274-8001 working with Hal Becker (602) 841-0962 U.S. patent 4,975,950 "System and Method of Protecting Integrity of Computer Data and Software" Leprechaun Software Pty Ltd PO Box 134 Lutwyche Queensland 4003 Australia Lindsay Hough +61 7 2524037 Leprechaun International 2284 Pine Warbler Way Marietta Georgia 30062 USA 404 971 8900 fax 404 971 8988 Roger Thompson home 404-509-7314 Wanikas Software Inc. Suite 4, 60 St. Claire Ave. W. Toronto, Ont. M4V 1M7 (416) 920-5006 Fax: (416) 920-0778 Virus Buster Look Software Cliff Livingstone Ottawa, Ontario 613-820-9450 Start - VIRUSCAN front end Paul Mace Software 400 Williamson Way Ashland, OR 97520 USA tech support 503-488-0224 fax: 503-488-1549 sold and supported through: Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. 10049 N. Reiger Rd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA 70809 800-677-1848 1-800-873-4384 sales and info 504-291-7283 tech support 504-291-7221 admin telecopier: 504-292-4465 Mace Vaccine-Anti-viral software. McAfee Associates 3350 Scott Blvd, Bldg 14 Santa Clara, California 95054-3107 USA Voice (408) 988-3832 FAX (408) 970-9727 BBS (408) 988-4004 CompuServe ID: 76702,1714 or GO VIRUSFORUM Viruscan-Scans disk and RAM for viri. Morgan Schweers - mrs@netcom.com Aryeh Goretsky,Tech Support aryehg@darkside.com mcafee@netcom.com Mike McCune MMCCUNE@SCTNVE.... FTP from mibsrv.mib.eng.ua.edu in pub/ibm-antivirus/innoc.zip INNOC Boot Virus Immunizer, boot sector overlay renders non-booting Microcom Software Division 3700-B Lyckan Parkway Durham, NC 27717 USA also Norwood, MA 919-490-1277 800-822-8224 BBS: (919) 419-1602 Virex-PC, also Virex for Mac - scanner Mary Golden-Hughes Glenn Jordan - beta list Fidonet: 1:155/223 Jordan C. Glenn -- Microcom cynic!van-bc!rock.concert.net!trent see also Software Concepts Design Micronyx Inc 1901 N. Central Expressway Richardson, TX USA 75080 800-634-8786 fax: 214-690-0595 Triumph security package (PC and LAN) Microseeds Publishing, Inc. 5801 Benjamin Center Drive, Suite 103 Tampa, Florida 33634 USA 813-882-8635 authors Frederic Miserey and Jean-Michel Decombe from France Rival Mac antiviral National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Security Division A-216 Technology Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA 301-975-3359 Fax: 301-590-0932 BBS: 301-948-5717 EMail: csrc@nist.gov Personnel and email addresses: Dennis D. Steinauer, DSteinauer@nist.gov Lawrence Bassham, LBassham@nist.gov W.T. Polk, WPolk@nist.gov John Wack, JWack@nist.gov Marianne Swanson, MSwanson@nist.gov (BBS Sysop) Nemesis Am Rain 8b D-7512 Rheinstetten 2 Karlsruhe, Germany Sparkasse Ettlingen BLZ 660 512 20 Kto. 135 66 33 Virus Help Service 49-721-821355 Sysop: Robert Hoerner Fido 2:241/7518 Virus Research Center 49-721-28780 Sysop: Mirko Ketterer Cosysop : Christian Sy Fido 2:241/7516 Nemesis activity monitor NetLink Online Communications San Diego CA Kevin Marcus (619) 435-6181 BBS: (619)/457-1836 tck@netlink.cts.com NetZ Computing Ltd. Israel V-Care Antivirus Expert System (PC) marketed in the US by Sela Consultants Corporation Nighthawk Electronics Ltd. P. O. Box 44 Saffron Walden Essex CB11 3ND UK (0799) 40881 Fax: (0799) 41713 John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University 2129 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 USA j-norstad@nwu.edu Disinfectant for Mac - archived at ftp.acns.nwu.edu (129.105.113.52) Ontrack Computer Systems Inc. 6321 Bury Dr. Eden Prairie, MN 55346 USA 612-937-1107 Steve Hill Head of Anti-Virus research Bob Bower, sales, ext. 234 1-800-752-1333 Ciprico, Inc. Plymouth, MN 55441 samurai@cipric.mn.org (Steve A. Hill) cynic!van-bc!uunet!rosevax!cipric!samurai Dr. Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit Orion Microsystems Quebec Osborne/McGraw-Hill 2600 Tenth St. Berkeley, CA 94710 USA The Computer Virus Handbook, Richard B. Levin, 0-07-881647-5 Panda Systems 801 Wilson Road Wimington, DE 19803 USA 800-727-2632 (302)764-4722 Dr. Panda Utilities, BEARTRAP, Panda Pro - Anti-Viral Software PSKane@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil or 0003607248@mcimail.com PanSoft Software & Support, P.O. Box 12-292, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND. author Peter Johnson, 52A Dyers Pass Road, Christchurch, 2, NEW ZEALAND phone (064) 3 3322-727 IMMUNISE & SCANBOOT Parsons Technology 375 Collins Road NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 One Parsons Dr. PO Box 100 Hiawatha, IA 52233-0100 USA 800-223-6925 319-395-9626 Virucide PC Guardian Security Products 118 Alto Street (1133 E. Francisco Blvd., Suite D?) San Rafael, CA 94901 Phone: 415-459-0190 Fax: 415-459-1162 Noah Groth, President Dan Marley 800-288-8126 Brett Fhuere 800-882-7766 Virus Prevention Plus Penn State University Penn State Virus Committee Chair - Gerry Santoro - 814-863-7896 A. Padgett Peterson, Computer Network Security Orlando (407)356-4054, 6384 work (407)356-2010 FAX POB 1203 Windermere, FLA, 34786 (407)352-6007 cynic!van-bc!uvs1.orl.mmc.com!tccslr.dnet!padgett padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com [host unknown] padgett%tccslr.dnet%mmc.com@cunyvm.cuny.edu cynic!van-bc!uvs1.orl.mmc.com!tccslr.dnet!padgett@dinl.den.mmc.com uvs1.orl.mms.com!padgett%tccslr.dnet@cs.utexas.edu DISKSECURE, SafeMBR, FixMBR PKWare, Inc. 7545 North Port Washington Road Glendale, WI 53217-3442 USA PKZIP, PKSFX-File compression utilities with encryption option Jonathan Potter P.O. Box 289 Goodwood, SA 5034 Australia (08) 2932788 ZeroVirus for Amiga Prime Factors 1470 East 20th Avenue Eugene, OR 97403 USA VI-Raid-Anti-Viral Software Publisher One Baltimore, Maryland Chris Fuedo - HU349C%GWUVM.BITNET@gwuvm.gwu.edu Chris Feudo ("No such user" at gwuvm.gwu.edu) virus protection book (Jan '92?) PYRAMID Development Corp 20 Hurlbut Street, West Hartford, CT 06110 (moved to:) 70 Inwood Rd Rocky Hill, CT 06067-3441 203-953-9832 Fax: 203-953-3435 PC/DACS retail $249.00. Quaid Software Ltd. 45 Charles Street East Toronto, ON M4Y 1S2 416-961-8243 Antidote-Anti-Viral Software product not available RG Software Systems Inc 6900 East Camelback Road Suite 630 Scottsdale AZ 85251 +1 602 423 8000 FAX (602) 423-8389 BBS (602) 970-6901 Ray Glath <76304.1407@CompuServe.COM> Diskwatcher 2.0, ViSpy, Virus Bulletin subscriptions Ross Greenburg Software Concepts Design 594 Third Avenue New York, NY 10016 USA 212-889-6431 BBS: 212-889-6438 Flushot-Anti-Viral Software. see also Microcom S&S International Ltd. Berkley Court, Mill Street Berkhamsted, Herts. HP2 4HB England Phone: +44 442 877 877 Fax: +44 442 877 882 BBS: +44 494 724 946 442 877 883 E-Mail: Dr. Alan Solomon sands@cix.compulink.co.uk Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit Vendor: Markt & Technik Software Partners GmbH Hans-Pinsel_Strasse 9b 8013 Haar Germany Phone: +49 89 46 09 00 92 Fax: +49 89 46 09 00 95 vendor: Ontrack Computer Systems 6321 Bury Drive Eden Prairie, MN 55346 USA (800) 752-1333 (612) 937-1107 fax: (612) 937-5815 St. Martin's Press 175 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10010 USA Computer Viruses, Worms, Data Diddlers, Killer Programs and Other Threats to Your System: what they are, how they work and how to defend your PC, Mac or mainframe, John McAfee and Colin Hayes, 1989, 0-312-02889-X Luis Bernardo Chicaiza Sandoval Phone: (91)2 02 23 78 Universidad de los Andes Bogota, Colombia mail address: Compucilina US$70, adds self check module review copies not available Tommy Pedersen SECTRA Teknikringen 2 S-583 30 Linkoping SWEDEN Telephone: +46 13 235214 +46 13 235200 FAX: +46 13 212185 Telephone: +46 13 282369 FAX: +46 13 289282 tommyp@sectra.se tommyp@isy.liu.se TCell unix change checker Security Dynamics Inc. Cambridge, MA USA 617 547 7820 mail undeliverable dial in security systems Securkey Systems Inc. 1674 Eglington Ave. West Toronto, Ontario M6E 2H3 (416) 784-2883 fax: (416) 784-0338 telecommunications encryption interface, DES/MAC keys Alexander Shehovtsov (044) 266-70-28 (9:00 - 18:00 Kiev, Ukraine) voice als@vl.ts.kiev.ua FidoNet 2:463/30.5 or 2:463/34.4 RLOCK software write protection Fridrik Skulason Box 7180 IS-127 Reykjavik Iceland frisk@complex.is (was frisk@rhi.hi.is) F-PROT-Virus detection/protection/disinfection and utilities Sophco P.O. Box 7430 Boulder, CO 80306 USA Vaccinate-Anti-Viral Software Sophos Limited 21 The Quadrant Abingdon Science Park Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3YS UK (0235) 559933 fax: (0235) 559935 Vaccine-Anti-Viral Software Springer-Verlag "A Pathology of Computer Viruses" by David Ferbrache of the UK Defense Research Agency, 1992, ISBN 3-540-19610-2 and 0-387-19610-2, $39.50 300 pages Swarthmore Software Systems 526 Walnut Lane Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA Bombsquad, Check-4-Bomb-Anti-Trojan software Stiller Research 2625 Ridgeway St. Tallahassee, FL 32310 Advanced Support Group (ASG) at 1-900-88-HELP8 (1-900-884-3578) or 314-256-3130 72571.3352@compuserve.com Runway BBS (215) 623-6203 2400 baud (215) 623-4897 HST (215) 623-6845 V.32 Integrity Master change detection software Sybex 2021 Clallenger Dr., #100 Alameda, CA 94501 USA Computer Virus Protection Handbook, Colin Hayes, 1990, 0-89588-696-0 Sydex BBS Eugene, Oregon USA 503-683-1385 Prune v2.1 utility Symantec/Peter Norton 10201 Torre Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 USA 408-253-9600 800-343-4714 800-441-7234 408-252-3570 416-923-1033 Technical Support: 213-319-2020 Virus Newsline: 408-252-3993 Virus Faxline: 213-575-5018 BBS: 408-973-9598 Fax: 408-253-4092 and 252-4694 Telex: 9103808778 Compuserve: NORUTL Jimmy Kuo cjkuo@ccmail.norton.com Norton AntiVirus and Norton Utilites TAB/Windcrest Books Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0850 USA Computer Viruses, Jonathon L. Mayo, 1989, 0-8306-3382-0 Tacoma Software Systems 7526 John Dower Road W. Tacoma, WA 98467 VIRSTOP 1.05 T.C.P. Techmar Computer Products 97 - 77 Queens Blvd. Rego Park, NY 11374 USA 800-922-0015 (not available from Canada) 718-997-6800 718-997-6666 fax: 718-520-0170 IRIS Antivirus (cf Fink), Antivirus Plus (purported "AI vaccine"), VirAway scanner (moved, no forwarding address 920814) Steve Tibbett 613-731-5316 BBS 613-731-3419 s.tibbett on BIX VirusX for Amiga Thecia Systems Ltd, Lasada House, BRIGHTON BN1 4ED United Kingdom Tel: +44 273 623500 Fax: +44 273 623700 Eliminator see also ICVI, BCVRC Harry Thijssen P.O. Box 662 6400 AR Heerlen The Netherlands INFOdesk The Hague FIDO 2:512/2.7 +31-70-3898822 HTScan scanner Thuna Technologies Upgrades, Etc. 2432-A Palma Drive Ventura, Ca. 93003-5732 Sales Department: (805)650-2030 (800)955-3527 Acounting: (805)650-2046 Customer Service/Returns(805)650-2042 Technical Support: (805)650-2044 FAX: (805)650-6515 MR. BIOS Tomauri Inc. 30 West Beaver Creek Road, Unit 13 Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 3K1 416-886-8122 Telecopier: 416-886-6452 PC Guard - password protection board, also for Mac Trend Micro Devices Inc. 2421 W. 205th St., #D-100 Torrance, CA 90501 USA 310-782-8190 fax: 310-328-5892 BBS: 310-320-2523 800-228-5651 PC-cillin - program change detection hardware/software Tripwire genek@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Tripwire UNIX security software University of Cincinnati Dep't. of Computer Engineering Mail Loc. 30 - 898 Rhodes Hall Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030 USA Cryptographic Checksum-Anti-Viral software Vacci Virus 84 Hammond Street Waltham, MA 02154 Voice: 1-617-893-8282 FAX : 1-617-969-0385 distributes Hoffman Virus Summary Document, other products unknown Van Nostrand Reinhold 115 Fifth Ave. New York, NY 10003 The Computer Virus Crisis, Fites/Johston/Kratz, 1989, 0-442-28532-9 Rogue Programs, edited Lance Hoffman, 1990, ISBN 0-442-00454-0 Vancouver Institute for Research into User Security 3118 Baird Road North Vancouver, B. C. V7K 2G6 604-984-4067 (Robert Slade, home) virus research archives, seminars, vendor contact list, product reviews, consulting Tarkan Yetiser VDS Advanced Research Group P.O. Box 9393 Baltimore, MD 21228 (410) 247-7117 e-mail: tyetiser@ssw02.ab.umd.edu VDS 2.1 change detector and scanner Frans Veldman ESaSS B.V. P.o. box 1380 6501 BJ Nijmegen The Netherlands Tel: 31 - 80 - 787 771 Fax: 31 - 80 - 777 327 Data: 31 - 85 - 212 395 (2:280/200 @fidonet) c/o Jeroen W. Pluimers/Smulders P.O. Box 266 2170 AG Sassenheim The Netherlands work: +31-71-274245 9.00-17.00 CET home: +31-2522-11809 19:00-23:00 CET email: 2:281/521 or 2:281/515.3 email: PLUIMERS@HLERUL5.BITNET FTHSMULD@rulgl.LeidenUniv.nl ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!rulgl.LeidenUniv.nl!FTHSMULD or Calmer Software Services 361 Somerville Rd Hornsby Heights NSW 2077, AUSTRALIA. Ph +61 2 4821715, BBS +61 2 4821716 TBSCAN, TBRESCUE, TBSCANX, Thunderbyte card John Veldthuis 21 Ngatai Street Manaia, Taranaki New Zealand Phone (0624) 8409 FIDO 3:771/400.0 johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz virus_checker for Amiga (archived at ab20.larc.nasa.gov) Mikael Larsson Virus Help Centre Box 7018 S-81107 SANDVIKEN SWEDEN Phone : +46-26 100518 Fax : +46-26 275720 BBS : +46-26 275710 (HST) FidoNet : 2:205/204 VirNet : 9:461/101 SigNet : 27:5346/108 (soon) Email : vhc@abacus.hgs.se Virus Test Center, Faculty for Informatics University of Hamburg Schlueterstr. 70, D2000 Hamburg 13, FR Germany Prof. Dr. Klaus Brunnstein, Simone Fischer-Huebner Contact: Margit Leuschner (VTC, secretary) Tel: (040) 4123-4158 (KB), -4175 (SFH), -4162 (ML) Email (EAN/BITNET): brunnstein@rz.informatik.uni-hamburg.dbp.de Computer Virus Catalog (MS-DOS, Mac, Amiga and Atari) George R. Woodside 5219 San Felicaino Drive Woodland Hills, CA 91364 USA (818) 348-9174 76537,1342@compuserve.com GEnie: G.WOODSIDE woodside@ttidca.com ..!{philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside VKILLER for Atari ST Jim Wright Maintains and distributes list of anti-viral archive and ftp sites XTree Co. 4115 Broad Street, Building 1 San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-7993 USA 800-477-1587 805-541-0604 fax: 805-541-4762 ViruSafe - scanner and "bait" program ============= Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "Kill all: God will know his own." Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | - originally spoken by Papal Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | Legate Bishop Arnald-Amalric User p1@CyberStore.ca | of Citeaux, at the siege of Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Beziers, 1209 AD ============= for back issues: Contacts list: cert.org, /pub/virus-l/docs/reviews Reviews: cert.org, /pub/virus-l/docs/reviews/pc Column: cert.org, /pub/virus-l/docs/slade.cvp.articles For those without ftp, see Jim Wright's posting, or use Cyberstore. Also FREQ from 1:153/733 The Cage 604-261-2347. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 12:01:11 -0700 From: Judy S. Brand Subject: Conference announcement - Ides of March CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SECURITY & VIRUS (no charge for exhibits only - complete & fax form by 11/27) Wednesday Thru Friday March 10-12, 1993, New York Ramada spons by DPMA Fin.Ind.Ch. in coop with ACM-SIGSAC, IEEE Computer Society, Boston Comp Soc, Comms Mgrs Assn, Corp for Open Systems, EDP Aud Assn (Ph), Info Sys Sec Assn (NY), NetWare Users Intl (NYLA) * 5 tracks, 53 Vendors, 90 Speakers (first 24 speakers & chairs below) * Identify Latest Threats to SNA, DEC, PC, MAC, X.25, OS2, ISDN, UNIXX * Tools & Techniques: Learn What Major Corp's & Agencies Are Doing * Specific Countermeasures: From Labs, Other Co's, Commercial Vendors * Network One-to-One with the Experts & Your Counterparts Elsewhere * 870-page 1993 bound Proceedings containing all papers * Breakfast & Beverage breaks, Luncheon, Empire State Building Reception * Entire Large Floor, Across from Penn Station & Garden, Parking Avail * Group Prepayment Discount: $975 total for FOUR (4) CONF REGISTRATIONS PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: 3 TRACKS BELOW, PLUS ONE EACH PC/LAN & MF/COM PRODS. CIO/SVP Management/Practice Technical & Research Full-Day LAN/LAW 3/10 Wed am courses: Intro Computer Security & Viruses NetWare Setups 1:00 courses: Telecom Managemt Virus Tech Intro: Skulason Vines Setups dinner: "Why Don't They Nail/Jail 'Em All?" vs. "Viruses as Free Speech" 3/11 Thursday: 9:00 Keynote Address: Seamless Security 10:15 Telecom I: Toll Fraud IBM Security Approach LAN HW/SW Defenses R.Lefkon, NYU W.Vance, IBM (spkr) P.Peterson, MrtnM 12:00 (Buffet & Restaurant Luncheon Provided) 1:00 Risk Assessmt Panel MAC Attacks I Disinfecting Server Katzke/Gilbert, NIST J.Paradise, Apple H.Highland,Compulit 2:30 Encryption, RSA, etc. UNIX Security I LAN Policy & Disaster W.Murray, Deloitte T.Duff, Bell Labs K.van Wyk, CERT/CMU 4:00 TransBorders: EC,Law What's Wrong With AntiVirus Products & Testing E.Okamoto, MITI G.Drusdow,F.Skulason,A.Solomon,P.Tippett,etc. 6:00 Empire State Building Observatory "MEET THE EXPERTS" Sit-Down Reception 3/12 Friday: 9:00 Publicly Avail Help Tekkies' Delight Intrusion DetectPrev K.Brunnstein,U.Hamburg F.Cohen, ASP D.Parker, SRI 11:00 MAC II & DEC Attacks UNIX Security II Using CCrime Law, FBI E.Spafford,(s)Purdue K.Levitt, U.C.Davis J.Bloombecker (s) 1:30 "ET TU HACKER? THE GREAT DEBATE": 9 experts, sometimes heated views, incl R.Schiffreen, who cracked U.K. Queen's Husband's E-Mailbox 3:15 WAN/Warfare/Telecom II New Research & Ideas Recent CCrime Cases G.Mallen, Mexico F.Skulason, F-Prot G.Thackeray,Maricopa 4:45 Continuation of Security Product "Shoot-Outs" XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X X X SIXTH INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SECURITY & VIRUS CONFERENCE X X Wednesday thru Friday March 10-12, 1993, NY Ramada X X X X Application for free pass to exhibits (late price: $30.00) X X Fax to (303) 825-9151 by November 27, 1992 X X or postmark to Box 894 New York NY 10268 X X X X First Name: ______________________ Last: ____________________ X X X X Organization: ___________________________ Title: ____________ X X X X Street Address: ______________________________________________ X X X X City: _____________________ State/Prov: _____ PostCode: _____ X X X X Day Telephone: (____) __________ Fax Telphone: __________ X X X X OPTIONAL: [_] CHECK IF INTERESTED IN CONF SESSIONS & COURSES X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ------------------------------ End of VIRUS-L Digest [Volume 5 Issue 162] ******************************************