Product Education

This is a collection of White Papers written on the subjects of viruses, antivirus, Unix, computer security and CyberSoft products. If you have written a white paper on one of these subjects and would like it to appear here, please let us know. We are always looking for new material in these categories.

Use of the Avatar and CIT tools for Centralized Distribution and Control
The VFind Security Tool Kit Professional (VSTKP) is a fully featured security and administration set of tools. It is not just an antivirus scanner. This paper assumes that you are already familiar with the primary function of the Avatar and CIT tools that are part of the VFind Security Tool Kit Professional. For those of you who are not, Avatar is an automated tool that runs without end user operation.

Virscan/SafeInternetEmail Documentation
The SafeInternetEmail system (SIE), also known as VirScan, uses CyberSoft's VFind anti-virus software to scan all incoming and outgoing email for viruses, suspicious file attachments, and spam. by Richard J. Perry, May 2002 This paper is also available for download as a pdf of as a postscript file.

CVDL Tutorial
CVDL is the CyberSoft Virus Description Language. It is used to define patterns for virus scanning by the VFind® Security Toolkit. The presentation here is a tutorial on using CVDL to create your own patterns. It starts with some simple examples, then presents an overview of all of the CVDL operators. By Rick Perry, September 16. 2001.

Extensions to CVDL, the CyberSoft Virus Description Language
This report documents extensions made recently to the original CyberSoft Virus Description Language (CVDL), and also provides a complete summary of the current language. By Dr. Rick Perry, August 11. 2001.

CVDL - CyberSoft Virus Description Language
This is a historical and technical paper on the CyberSoft Virus Description Language (CVDL) and how it performs to detect viruses in source code by providing forward reference proximity scanning. CVDL also enhances virus scanning by searching for keywords using case insensitivity and proximity testing.

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