Team Anti-Virus An organization for independent anti-virus researchers to facilitate communication, collaboration, and public education. Publishs and links to many papers written by independent researchers.
European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR) Combines universities, industry, media, technical, security, and legal experts from civil and military government and law enforcement as well as privacy protection organizations whose objectives are to unite non-commercial efforts against writing and proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and against computer crime and fraud.
Virus or Hoax? Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
Antivirus World Antivirus news, information, online tests, and useful downloads.
Computer Virus Myths The canonical reference for computer virus myths, hoaxes, and urban legends.
Examples of Malicious Computer Programs Long essay that describes harm done by major computer viruses or worms, and discusses the nonexistent or lenient punishment for the authors or distributors of these malicious programs.
Windows Startup Tasks Massive listing of tasks that may be running on a Windows system at startup, including tasks which may be created by viruses, worms, spyware, and trojans
Personal Home Page - Szor, Peter Research papers on computer viruses written by Peter Szor. The site covers Windows viruses and worms and the development of polymorphic and metamorphic viruses.
EICAR test file Provides a standardized test file for signature based virus detection software. This file can be used to verify the correct operation of antivirus software without unnecessary exposure to viruses.
Computer Viruses In Unix Networks Paper which examines in detail the problem of computer viruses as they relate to Unix and Unix-like systems.
Burton Systems Software - Virus Avoidance Advice Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to many free tools and other resources.
Sophos Virus Analyses This Sophos database holds the latest virus names and descriptions.
Trend Virus Encyclopedia Trend Micro issues regular advisories regarding new viruses, including a guide to avoiding them in the first place. Site covers risk factor of the newest viruses. lists top ten virus and offers a security alert archive.
VirusList.com Permanently replenishing information about new viruses. Mechanisms of breeding and operation, detailed analysis of algorithms of viruses. Methods to guard against computer viruses.
Secunia - Virus Information Collects virus information from multiple anti-virus vendors, and the collected information is grouped and indexed. When certain conditions are met virus alerts are generated and can be emailed.
OpenAntiVirus Project Project aimed at developing open source antivirus software comparable to current commercial offerings.
The Art Of Noh A weblog on computer security, viruses, worms, trojans and other types of malicious software by Costin G. Raiu.