The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans may now be able to take a sick day. For the first time in nearly forty years of intense study, scientists have identified two new viruses that can infect the ...

Netsky-P, an email computer worm allegedly written by a German teenager, was the hardest-hitting virus of 2004, disrupting tens of thousands of businesses and homes worldwide, Web security firm Sophos ...

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Anti-virus experts have identified new versions of three major e-mail worms and say that a “war” between rival virus writers may be to blame for the rash of outbreaks in recent weeks. New versions of ...

A computer worm is a type of malware that, once it infects a machine, can automatically copy and extend itself to connected devices. A worm is very similar to a virus, and you can get infected by one ...

A series of arrests in Germany for alleged computer virus creation is likely to deter casual virus writers, but worms and variants continue and the most hardened computer criminals will probably be ...

Antivirus companies have long cautioned users against opening unexpected e-mail attachments or attachments sent by strangers, but thanks to a new e-mail worm spreading this week, antivirus companies ...

A virus which appears to be very similar to the Code Red virus is presently attacking the Internet and is under investigation by anti-virus experts and the FBI. Information is still sketchy, There ...

(see story). It represented some scary malware firsts and is likely a harbinger of worms to come. IT professionals need to understand Witty and what it did. Witty was the first worm to target a ...