A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures ...

This is a demonstration of the I Love You Virus (known mostly as "ILOVEYOU"), which was recognized by the Guiness Book of ...

A worm unleashed in the summer of 1999 that infected Microsoft Exchange mail servers. It replied to each incoming message with "Hi <sender name>! I received your email and will send you a reply ASAP.

Previous viruses, such as Love Bug, Code Red and the Nimda Worm caused problems for millions of computer users across the world.

Viruses and the other damaging software and dirty tricks that get lumped under the “malware” umbrella (malicious software intended to harm your computer) have been with us almost as long as ...

How much damage did the most costly computer virus cost? The MyDoom worm was the most expensive malware infection to date, causing roughly $38 billion in total damage. How much does it cost to repair ...

Security researchers have developed a self-replicating AI worm that can infiltrate people’s emails in order to spread malware and steal data. Dubbed Morris II, after the first ever computer worm ...

worms, and other malware. Computer viruses have changed a great deal since then. It has generally been an evolutionary change: mostly small developments that, when looked at cumulatively ...

Bitdefender launched its study into malware sandwiches after finding the Rimecud worm infected by the Virtob ... at www.malwarecity.com. "That PC faces a twofold malware with twice as many command ...

It was a cold autumn night in 1988. The people of Cambridge, Massachusetts lay asleep in their beds unaware of the future horror about to be unleashed from the labs of the nearby college.

For the first time in nearly forty years of intense study, scientists have identified two new viruses that can infect the worms in the wild, opening up new avenues of research in host-virus ...

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other ...