title: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses: The Basic Technology
author:  Mark A. Ludwig 
description: The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses has seen five
  good years in print. In those five years it has opened a door to
  seriously ask the question whether it is better to make technical
  information about computer viruses known or not.
zlib_text: THE
  Black Book
  of
  Computer Viruses
  Mark Ludwig
  GianT
  
  The
  GIANT
  Black Book
  of
  Computer Viruses
  by
  Mark Ludwig
  American Eagle Publications, Inc.
  Post Office Box 1507
  Show Low, Arizona 85901
  —1995—
  
  (c) 1995 Mark A. Ludwig
  Front cover artwork (c) 1995 Mark Forrer
  All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be repro-
  duced in any manner without the express written permission of
  the publisher.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication data
  
  Table of Contents
  Introduction
  1
  Computer Virus Basics
  13
  Part I: Self Reproduction
  The Simplest COM Infector
  17
  Companion Viruses
  39
  Parasitic COM Infectors: Part I
  51
  Parasitic COM Infectors: Part II
  69
  A Memory-Resident Virus
  87
  Infecting EXE Files
  99
  Advanced Memory Residence Techniques
  113
  An Introduction to Boot Sector Viruses
  131
  The Most Successful Boot Sector Virus
  153
  Advanced Boot Sector Techniques
  171
  Multi-Partite Viruses
  193
  Infecting Device Drivers
  213
  Windows Viruses
  229
  An OS/2 Virus
  261
  UNIX Viruses
  281
  Source Code Viru