H2K2 (HOPE 2002) took place on July 12-14, 2002 at Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.

Understanding the fundamentals of how to identify, remove, and defend against hostile code. Robert Lupo will cover how different computer viruses work - boot sector, file infector, multi-parti, VBS, Java, the different OS viruses, etc. He will also explain how to remove different computer viruses with and without anti-virus software and discuss the future of computer viruses and hostile code.