About the author

Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation, Professor of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ) and Webmaster of www.softpanorama.org - Open Source Software University - a volunteer technical site for the United Nations SDNP program that helps with Internet connectivity and distributes Linux to developing countries. He authored one of the first classification system for computer viruses and an influential Russian language book on the subject -- Computer Virology in 1991 (see also the author current views on the subject). Right now is more interested in e-commerce security, Perl and so called Orthodox File Managers (Midnight Commander, etc.).

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Created Jan 2, 1997. Last modified: February 28, 2008