This week computer viruses celebrate 20 years of causing trouble and strife to all types of computer users. US student Fred Cohen was behind the first documented virus that was created as an ...

There’s lots of information (and misinformation) about the term “virus,” so let’s get it straight and define computer virus once and for all: a computer virus is a self-replicating, malicious program ...

You surely have some idea how a computer virus works, though you may not know the details. Somehow it weasels its way into your computer, and then the computer slows way down…or it starts making ...

Microsoft has uncovered a software bug in old versions of its Windows operating system that could be used to carry out a global-scale cyber attack. If the bug is discovered by hackers, they could ...

The 20th anniversary of the first PC virus falls this month. It was during the opening weeks of 1986 that the first PC virus, called Brain, was discovered in the wild. Though it achieved fame because ...