A new computer virus called 'bot,' which creates networks of infected computers to mount attacks on specific Web sites, is spreading, National Police Agency officials said Saturday.

COMMENTARY--The computer virus is, it seems, as unstoppable as its biological forebears--and possesses the same appetite for evolution. As the internet grows and our computers become more powerful ...

If Beta Bot blocks access to security sites, download the latest anti-virus updates or a whole new anti-virus program onto an uninfected computer, save it to a USB drive and load and run it on the ...

Viruses can also be defined by the types of threats they pose. Spyware, for example, doesn’t harm your computer, but it does steal information such as passwords, contacts or financial data.

Malicious computer programs known as bots, short for robots, allow hackers to hijack thousands of far-flung computers and control them remotely.

The viruses infect a network, scan for security vulnerabilities and then report back to hackers through an internet chatroom. Armies of computers infected with “bot” viruses are routinely ...

IMlogic issued the warning late on Tuesday and cited a recent example of such a malicious bot. On Monday, IMlogic first published details of a new threat known as IM.Myspace04.AIM.

Nearly half the Twitter user discussing coronavirus reopenings on the platform could be bots, a new study by the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science has found.

Bots, viruses, breaches and attacks are a constant and real threat to the information security of organisations, says Amnon Bar-Lev, president of Check Point. This was the main finding of the ...

So-called bots even allow attackers to remotely control infected systems. Old-style malware, seemingly written for bragging rights, made headlines for knocking out swaths of the World Wide Web.

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