📚 Computer Viruses

Self-replicating programs and the industry they created: outbreaks, antiviruses, and the ethics of both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject computer viruses in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Hacker Crackdown	Bruce Sterling	1992	17
	Computer viruses for dummies	Peter H. Gregory	2004	5
	Information security	United States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division	1999	4
	Antivirus Hacker's Handbook	Joxean Koret	2015	4
	Digital Contagions	Jussi Parikka	2016	4
	Cybersecurity Threats, Malware Trends, and Strategies	Tim Rains	2020	4
	Handbook of Research on Cyber Criminals and Data Privacy Measures	Nuno Mateus-Coelho	2023	4
	Computer viruses	Ralf Burger	1988	3
	Computer viruses and anti-virus warfare	Jan Hruska	1990	3
	Rogue Programs	Lance J. Hoffman	1990	3
	Rx PC	Janet Endrijonas	1993	3
	Virus	Rune Skardhamar	1995	3
	Virus proof	Phil Schmauder	2000	3
	Malware forensics	James M. Aquilina	2008	3
	Stuxnet	Roman Poroshyn	2013	3
	Virus !	Allan Lundell	1989	2
	The Complete Computer Virus Handbook	Price Waterhouse	1989	2
	Computer viruses and related threats	John P. Wack	1989	2
	Software undersiege	Ernst L. Leiss	1990	2
	The PC virus control handbook	Robert V. Jacobson	1990	2
	The computer virus handbook	Richard B. Levin	1990	2
	An overview of computer viruses in a research environment	Matt Bishop	1991	2
	Approaching zero	Paul Mungo	1992	2
	The computer virus desk reference	Christopher V. Feudo	1992	2
	Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution	Mark A. Ludwig	1993	2
	Approaching Zero	Paul Mungo	1993	2
	Guide to computer viruses	Robert Slade	1994	2
	The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses	Mark A. Ludwig	1995	2
	Moths in the machine	Daniel Kohanski	2000	2
	Anti-Virus Für Dummies	G. Wirth	2004	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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