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 ...

Antivirus software runs in the background and, in most cases, will monitor your internet connection in real-time looking for ...

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon). Unlike the ...

Computer viruses can slow your devices, create a slew of pop-up ads and steal personal information, but antivirus software can defend your devices from these threats. CNBC Select reviewed dozens ...

Computer users across the U.S. were tricked into sending thousands of dollars when they called a bogus tech support line to ...

The FTC said in a criminal complaint that the “scans” would trigger warnings of serious computer problems – regardless of ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus ...

The Metropolitan Police Department on May 28 arrested a man on suspicion of creating a computer virus using interactive generative artificial intelligence in a potential ransomware threat to ...

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