Peter Ferrie
"qkumba"
(also "peterferrie" on OpenRCE and DOSBox)
Principal Anti-virus Researcher, Microsoft Corporation
reverse-engineer and software preservationist
email: peter.ferrie@gmail.com
NEWS 
May 18: added Flizzy article, to be published in Virus Bulletin June 2012.
May 1: Amfibee article is now available here (pdf), published in Virus Bulletin April 2012.
April 24: added Lymer article, to be published in Virus Bulletin May 2012.
April 1: Mifeve article is now available here (pdf), published in Virus Bulletin March 2012.
March 21: added Amfibee article, to be published in Virus Bulletin April 2012.
If Uli had called it the Air Guitar, then it might have been more popular. :-)
BIO
Peter Ferrie began working with computers in 1981.
In 1986, he began developing anti-virus software for Apple II PCs.
From 1992-1998, he worked for an Australian distributor of anti-virus software for IBM PCs, first viruscan then F-Prot.
From 1998-2000, he worked for Frisk Software International in Iceland.
From 2000-2003, he worked for Symantec Corporation in Australia.
From 2003-2008, he worked for Symantec Corporation in the USA.
In 2008, he joined Microsoft Corporation.
Ferrie specialises in the analysis of Win32, Win64, and Linux malware, reverse engineering code on multiple platforms, and development of (anti-)emulators, (anti-)unpackers, and (anti-)debuggers.
He has been a speaker at various conferences, and is the most frequent contributor ever to the Virus Bulletin journal.
He joined CARO (Computer Anti-virus Research Organisation) in 2001.
He received the Virus Bulletin 2010 award for greatest contribution to anti-malware in the last 10 years.
COMPANY PRESENTATIONS
CONFERENCE PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
2012
New So, Enter Stage Right - W32/Flizzy, Virus Bulletin, June 2012, page 4-5
New Like a BAT Out of Hell - BAT/Lymer, Virus Bulletin, May 2012, page 9-11
New "Amfibee"-ous Vehicle - {W32/W64}/Amfibee, Virus Bulletin, April 2012, page 4-6
Not "Mifeve"-ourite Thing (pdf) - MLS/Mifeve, Virus Bulletin, March 2012, page 4-9
If Svar Is The Answer (pdf) - W32/Svar, Virus Bulletin, February 2012, page 8-9
This Sig Doesn't Run (pdf) - W64/Svafa, Virus Bulletin, January 2012, page 4-5
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
UNPUBLISHED
SECURITY
LOW-LEVEL
FUN STUFF
The "Life In ..." series
My favourite demos
My favourite games
DOSBox fixes for demos and games
Old games that I finally beat
My Brøderbund info
My Infocom info
My Mindscape info
Scan of the Month 33
Apple II stuff
Old coding stuff
Print EICAR test string in 56 bytes
GREETINGS
painters: 007, Angel, Aster, Banish, Bizar, Chams, Custom, Droogie (gallery), Dys, Kagent, Kaine, Kerupt, KOS, Mister E, Orsam, RCF, Ree, Rize, Sink, TPee, Unique (Sinz, Spice)
Apple II: Colwyn, Home Hacker, Maz, Prototype (not the ex-virus writer on IBM PCs) (Bandits, Plasmania), Rebel, San Inc (Karateka side A, Karateka side B), Seroster, TCS, TTT
LINKS
Painters: 50mm Los Angeles
Apple II: Asimov (ftp)
Comics: 9 Chickweed Lane, Baby Blues, General Protection Fault, Liō, Sinfest, User Friendly
Other: Oldskool, Old School ;-)
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