EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research) welcomes new Board Member Eddy Willems, International known Anti-Virus Expert, from Data Alert International as Director for Press and Information (March 2001)

EICAR (European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research ***), the industry leading organisation combining efforts from the AV industry, Universities and Business, welcomes new Board member Eddy Willems, International known Anti-Virus Expert, from Data Alert International at the 10th EICAR conference (March 2001) in Munich . Eddy Willems will become the Director for Press and Information.
‘EICAR must become more and more visible in the whole world,’ said Eddy Willems.
‘This is one of my goals this year. We must continue to build more initiatives like the EICAR-test file and the EAVEP survey.’

EICAR combines universities, industry and media plus technical, security and legal experts from civil and military government and law enforcement as well as privacy protection organisations whose objectives are to unite efforts against writing and proliferation of malicious code like computer viruses or Trojan Horses, and, against computer crime, fraud and the misuse of computers or networks, inclusive malicious exploitation of personnel data, based on a code of conduct.

You can find more information and press releases about this at the EICAR website  http://www.eicar.org  and at the Data Alert website http://www.dataalert.com .

March 2001