This exciting publishing project was undertaken jointly by AVIEN, the Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network, and AVIEWS, the Anti-Virus Information & Early Warning System, and published by Syngress. It shipped in the USA in August, and in Europe/UK in September. It was reviewed for Virus Bulletin by Martin Overton, and that review is available here. Check out the many other excellent papers on Martin's site.

Questions, applause, brickbats etc regarding the book can be sent to info@smallblue-greenworld.co.uk and will be forwarded to the other authors.

You can get the full PR blast at the Elsevier site. The Table of Contents, however, is here. We'll slip in some short extracts in due course, though you can get a full sample chapter at the Syngress page.

The errata page has just been put up here. Yes, there are more errata to come!

We couldn't have cartoons in the book, so we put some on this page, donated by Paul Dickens and David Harley.

This book (it's anticipated that there will be others!) is a guide to managing malicious software and related security issues within the enterprise. The uniqueness of this book lies in its partnership between highly experienced, highly qualified corporate security practitioners and the anti-malware research community, as represented by AVIEN and its sibling AVIEWS.

The book therefore reflects the expertise of security administrators and managers at the customer coalface and the technical and developmental expertise of both industry and independent researchers.

The contributors are as follows (affiliations are not included unless we have specific permission):

• Kenneth Bechtel (Team Anti-Virus)
• Michael P. Blanchard (EMC2)
• Tony Bradley
• Henk K. Diemer
• Ken Dunham (iDefense)
• Enrique Gonzalez (Microsoft)
• David Harley (Small Blue-Green World, and AVIEN Interim Administrator)
• Judith Harley
• Andrew Lee (ESET, and AVIEWS Administrator)
• Jim Melnick (iDefense)
• Dr. Igor Muttik (McAfee)
• David Phillips (Open University)
• Paul Schmehl (University of Texas)
• Robert S. Vibert (AVIEN Immediate Past Administrator)
• James Wolfe
• Bojan Zdrnja

• Customer Power
• Stalkers on Your Desktop
• A Tangled Web
• Big Bad Bots
• Crème de la CyberCrime
• Defense in Depth
• Perilous Outsorcery
• Education in Education
• DIY Malware Analysis
• Antivirus Evaluation & Testing
• AVIEN & AVIEWS: the Future

Finally, this is a cover idea Paul and I were playing with (he did the drawing!) early in the project. Of course, it's of purely historical interest now, but I rather liked the idea.