Eddy Willems

Eddy Willems (born 1962) is a computer virus and malware expert from Belgium.

He studied Computer Sciences at IHB and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He started working as a Systems Analyst in 1984. He did also some data recovery work in those early days. In 1989 he became interested in viruses because of an incident with the famous AIDS-diskette. From that time on he started to gather information about computer viruses and anti-virus software. In 1991 (from the beginning in Brussels) he became a founding member of EICAR, a European security organisation.

Over the years he has maintained a reference library of software, books and almost everything that has been published on the anti-malware field. Since 1995 he has been a participant in the Wildlist (see links), the world's premier source of information on which viruses are spreading in the wild. He also put up his own "WAVCI" website specifically dedicated to be the index to all anti-malware related pages and websites. He also wrote the "Virus" article for the international version of the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia. Since the end of 1996, he has been working as anti-malware technology expert in the security industry. He has also been very busy writing articles for several international magazines and publications.

In May 2000 the Belgian government asked him as advisor for an E-Security Platform which provides quick anti-virus and security information to the Belgian people. In March 2001 he became the Director of Press and Information for EICAR. He gives consultancies, presentations and seminars all over Europe and the Middle East. Several CERTs, press agencies and publications use his advice regularly.

External links

* [http://www.wavci.com Eddy Willems website]
* [http://www.eicar.org EICAR Organisation website]
* [http://www.wildlist.org WildList Organisation website]