The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday -- April Fools' Day. That's when many of ...

Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year. Earlier this week, ...

Antivirus companies have long cautioned users against opening unexpected e-mail attachments or attachments sent by strangers, but thanks to a new e-mail worm spreading this week, antivirus companies ...

The worm _ called "Mydoom,' "Novarg' or "WORM_MIMAIL.R' _ was replicating itself so quickly that some corporate networks were clogged with infected traffic within hours of its appearance Monday. Its ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new "worm" software program that purports to rid computers of malicious viruses actually leaves the viruses intact and chews up files instead, security experts said Friday. The worm, ...

The Conficker computer worm didn't turn out to be much of an April Fools' gag. The much-hyped malware didn't do catastrophic damage to the world's computers Wednesday as some had feared. However, ...

NEW YORK -- The continued spread yesterday of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human. Posing ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- An e-mail worm that looks like a normal error message but actually contains a malicious program snarled computers around the world on Tuesday ...