The conference brings together experts from industry, government, military, law enforcement, academia, research and end-users to examine and discuss new research and development in anti-virus, malware, e-security, e-forensics, ICT Management and legal aspects of the information technology.

While the EICAR conference traditionally covers all aspects of malicious code and the development of "anti" measures, the EICAR conference 2011 intends to take the opportunity of this anniversary to firstly have a look back to the past years and determine what facts / developments are really essential and which are not. In a growing world of poor communication, misunderstanding, hype and commercial driven interest, it is time to realign stakeholders and in particular scientific research and commercial product vendors. It is about time to assess what are real threats and what are myths in the non-transparent world of computer malware and the computer anti-malware.