Linux Review: Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

Malware: Fighting Malicious Code is the most comprehensive book to date on the subject. The book devotes a full chapter to each type of malware, including viruses, worms, malicious mobile code, backdoors, Trojan horses, user-mode rootkits and kernel rootkits. Each chapter presents the characteristics and methods of attack, evolutionary trends and advice for how to defend against each. In addition, scenarios are presented in which malicious code has been planted in systems and directions are given for how to analyze potential and real malware safely and effectively.