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 ...

Computer viruses can invade your system without you noticing, disrupting its operation and even stealing your data. To ...

Many students will not be saying "I love you" to their computers this Valentine's Day, as a slew of computer viruses have wrecked havoc on the Tufts campus this past week. Hundreds of students have ...

No wonder viruses became an ideal weapon model in a totally different world — a world of programming. The first computer viruses were created as early as in the 1970s. Starting as pranks, they evolved ...

Although ANIMAL, Wabbit, and Elk Cloner came before it, many consider Brain to be one of the first computer viruses, largely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of these shambling data revenants are computer viruses and the most long-lived of all are worms. "Most of those worms are self-spreading - that's why we still see them moving around," said ...

Researchers have developed a computer virus that can leverage the power of ChatGPT to first disguise itself by changing its own code — and then, in a particularly devious twist, spread by ...

Computer viruses can slow down your devices, create a sea of pop-up ads and even erase or steal personal information. Antivirus software can defend your devices from threats and protect your data.