Finding an up to date website with detailed information on viruses

Question

Is there a website with the ability to search through viruses that will return detailed information on them? I can't seem to find one and I'm tired of only getting forums when I search for a specific virus on Google. I want to be able to look up a particular virus and read information about what that particular virus does/tries to do. Thanks guys.

Answer 1

It sounds like you are interested in something similar to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), except for malware. I am not sure such a thing exists, but here are some similar repositories:

• http://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo/
• http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Views.aspx
• http://www.virustotal.com/search.html
• http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/threatencyclopedia.aspx?language=us&tab=malware
• http://www.f-secure.com/en/web/labs_global/threats/descriptions
• http://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/viruses-and-spyware.aspx

Perhaps it would be a good project to stand up a site that queries all of these repos and provides results from all of them in one place.