Fairfax County has fallen victim to the worst computer virus in its history, forcing it to shut down its Web site until each of the county's 9,000 computers and 300 servers has been screened, ...

This week marks the first anniversary of the Nimda virus attack, an event that may have driven more corporate IT security changes during the past 12 months than the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks did.

After a long weekend, I was hoping for a nice, quiet day spent cleaning up my e-mail and planning my budgets for next year. Instead, I faced the Nimda worm. This delightful virus is like Code Red on ...

After trying to erase the latest computer virus for two days, Sharique Ansari was ready for drastic measures. "What I'd like to do is pull the plug on the outside world -- but unfortunately I can't do ...

The sophisticated Nimda worm virus that plagued computers around the globe last week did not spare the Tufts network. The virus snaked its way across campus computers primarily through the popular ...

QMy Windows Millennium Edition PC was hit by the CMOS B virus. Now the system freezes up every time I run Norton. AAlthough last week's Nimda virus got all the press, it wasn't the only virus ...

Students who expected to access their course reserve materials electronically last week discovered that, even in the age of the Internet, paper is still the most reliable print medium. The Electronic ...

“readme.exe”, spreads to both servers and PCs running Microsoft software and propagates itself by email, mailing itself to everyone in your address book. It also spreads through network shares – ...

At Target Range Elementary School, the school librarian has had to check out books without the use of a computer for almost two weeks now. By handwriting, she's matched code numbers on student library ...

No customer systems were infected by the virus, and the risk of infection is low, a company spokesman said. "The risk is low, but we're taking this very seriously," he said. Nimda became an unwelcome ...

My dad's small network was recently infected with NIMDA. Although we have the virus cleaned off, he's still having a strange problem....what alerted him to the virus in the first place (and what is ...