General Tips & Info FAQ

Virus notification mailing lists

A bunch of the anti-virus program creators run mailing lists where they send out notices about new viruses, if you're interested, check out these links:

Norton's Virus Alerts
Kaspersky VirusList
Sophos Anti-Virus
McAfee's Virus Alerts
Message Labs
Trend Micro
Antivirus.About.com

For Windows, security alerts to fix the bugs that viruses like to make use of, visit Microsoft Security. Then on the right of the page, click on the Register for TechNet Flash. This sends techhie notifications of security updates before same reaches Windows Update. If you sub to this, check that the security issue in the mailing does indeed cover your Windows set-up and Windows programs that you have installed and use.

Thanks to Marina for posting these links to the EL-M list.