Computer security technologists are racing to find ways to block ever-more complex computer worms and viruses that burrow into computers -- usually via e-mail -- and wreak havoc on network systems.

An ominous computer worm today could cause major network outages, siphon personal information from millions and attack government networks.

This being the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Symantec, the manufacturer of computer-security software, has published a list of the top computer worms, viruses, trojan horses, and hoaxes in ...

Computer worms have tried all sorts of ploys for tricking users into activating them, but the latest is particularly sneaky--it masquerades as a virus warning from Symantec, a well-known anti ...

Researchers this week discovered a virus that one expert said may be the first written using Microsoft Corp.’s C# programming language. The W32/Sharpei@MM virus is a mass-mailing worm that can ...

Heck, it may be sitting on your computer right now. McAfee virus fighters in the Silicon Valley estrimate that some twenty million PCs are already infected with the worm and things may soon get worse.

The attack employed a new technique designed to spread the worm as quickly as possible. It's customary for computer viruses to search an infected computer for e-mail addresses, then send itself to ...

The mass-mailing worm affects machines running the Windows operating system and can spread through vulnerable shared directories on computer networks and over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network.

A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology to stop malicious software – malware – such as viruses and worms long before it even has a chance to reach ...

While parents may worry about their children catching a virus on their first excursion from home, some University officials believe their children's computers may be more at risk. Campus computing ...

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 ...