Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (OReilly Computer Security)

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Constant Width

indicates command-line computer output, keyboard accelerators (e.g, Ctrl-Alt-Del), code examples, registry keys, syntax prototypes , menu instructions, and HTML attributes and tags (e.g., WIDTH attribute).

Constant Width Bold

indicates commands in examples that need to be entered by the user .

Constant Width italic

indicates variables in examples and in registry keys. A variable or word tagged with this style is a signal that the word needs to be replaced by another word.

Italic

is used to introduce new terms, to indicate URLs, variables or user-defined files and directories, commands, file extensions, filenames, directory or folder names , and UNC pathnames.

<brackets>

indicate variables or user-defined elements within the italic text (such as path- or filenames). For instance, in the path \Windows\<username> , replace <username> with your username -- but without the brackets.

<%windir%>

indicates the folder in which the Windows operating system is installed. It's usually C:\windows or C:\winnt, but it can be different.

<%systemroot%>

indicates the Windows system folder. It's usually C:\windows\system or C:\winnt\system 32, but it can be different.