A powerful new computer virus was today causing havoc with e-mail systems across the world. Experts described the virus, called Goner, as one of the fastest-spreading they had yet seen and warned ...

Your antivirus will protect you from many online threats, but no antivirus is perfect. Truth is, your PC can still be hacked ...

Written in 1971 by Robert Thomas while he was a programmer for BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which became Raytheon), the first computer virus was called Creeper and was designed without ...

Disk-Thrashing Aggravation There is a hypothetical way that a virus could contribute to an existing action that can break a hard drive. When a computer doesn't have enough RAM to handle all ...

Transferring data from an old computer to a new one can be daunting, especially when you want to ensure a clean and secure ...

BIOS Virus Behaviors Most BIOS viruses are ransomware. They'll claim your system is infected, and direct you to a fake virus removal website, or threaten to encrypt your hard drive if you don't ...

A computer virus in the DOS/Windows environment that takes advantage of the fact that .COM and .EXE are two valid executable extensions for program files, and .COM takes precedence. For example ...

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986, Brain was developed by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free.

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

He had heard about this type of computer virus and how dangerous it could be. But he never thought that he would be tricked into clicking on a wrong link. Now, as he read the ransom note ...

A worm virus is different from other computer viruses. Most often, a virus is introduced to a system as an attachment or program that needs to be opened, downloaded, or installed on a host.

Now that personal computers have been a part of everyday life for about 30 years, computer viruses aren't as mysterious as they once were. Simply put, a virus is a kind of malware that has the ...