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This book isn't quite like the majority of works on security. Many security volumes are good sources of information on other areas of security, yet inaccurate on virus specifics.

General security books are also often inclined to a full-disclosure mode, which isn't altogether appropriate for a virus book. Not that we necessarily advocate the paternalist, "Gods and Ants" mindset that characterizes some sectors of the anti-virus industry, who usually lean towards the nondisclosure end of the continuum. We hope that you will, as far as possible, test what we tell you and make up your own mind. But the greatest disclosure problem in virus literature concerns actual virus code.

The indiscriminate inclusion of virus code (existing or new) in previous books and elsewhere has, in our opinion, been of more use to the aspiring virus writer than to the hard-pressed systems administrator. As Gene Spafford has famously said, showing people how to pour sugar into the gas tank doesn't teach them much about auto mechanics. You have to know a bit about how viruses operate in order to protect against them, but the finer details of virus coding are completely irrelevant. So we won't publish virus code (let alone original virus code).

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