Some Anti-Malware resources

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jdd/antimalware.html

• Firefox and Thunderbird are available for free from http://www.mozilla.org
  Firefox has a very useful add-on to protect against malicious active content: http://www.noscript.net.

• Windows --- http://update.microsoft.com
• Macs --- http://www.apple.com/support/osfamily/
• BSD, Linux --- See your BSD or Linux distribution home site.

• All OSes --- http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance
• Windows --- http://www.microsoft.com/security
• MacOS --- http://www.apple.com/support/security
• FreeBSD --- http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security.html

• Windows XP --- use builtin Windows Backup.
• Windows Vista Business/Ultimate -- use builtin Windows Backup and Restore Center
• Windows XP/2003/Vista -- DriveImage XML, free for home use -- http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
• Windows XP Home --- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q302894
• Linux --- use tar, or see http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administration/Backup.html
• BSD --- use dump/restore.
• Open-source multiplatform backup systems --- www.bacula.org and www.amanda.org.
• Smartphones/PDAs --- regularly sync to your PC.

• Windows --- AVG at http://free.grisoft.com
• Windows --- Avast! Home Edition at http://www.avast.com
• Windows --- Spybot-Search&Destroy at http://www.safer-networking.org
• Windows --- Ad-Aware at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware
• Windows -- Microsoft Windows Defender at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender

• Canada: Criminal Code excerpts --- http://security.uwo.ca/CRIMINAL.CODE.html
• Canada: RCMP Scam/Fraud Prevention (includes computer scams/frauds) --- http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes
• USA: US Department of Justice --- http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/
• USA: Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) --- http://www.ic3.gov
• UK: London Metropolitan Police Computer Crime Unit --- http://www.met.police.uk/computercrime/

• http://www.antiphishing.org
• http://www.scambusters.org

• CERT Coordination Center --- http://www.cert.org
• "Stop Badware" partnership --- http://www.stopbadware.org
• Symantec Security Response --- http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter
• Global Information Assurance Certification --- http://www.giac.org
• Counterhack --- http://www.counterhack.net
• Counterpane Internet Security --- http://www.counterpane.com

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