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Curb your curiosity or you stand an excellent chance of contaminating your computer with the latest malevolent worm. Once the "SoBig" cyber saboteur gets into a PC it rummages around for e-mail ...

On the Internet's 40th anniversary, Symantec lists the worst cyber threats. Sept. 3, 2009 — -- This fall marks the 40th birthday of the Internet, and to celebrate it, Symantec, the manufacturer ...

Malware includes viruses, worms, adware, spyware, and ransomware — they all work differently but tend to cause similar ...

Computer worms are set to become a more deadly combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts at Symantec. Code Red and Nimda marked the demise of socially engineered ...

Conficker? What on earth is that? Well, it's a malicious computer program or "worm" that is believed to have infected between 9 million and 12 million personal computers (PCs) worldwide, and if it ...

Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, ...

Computer security experts said yesterday that new appearances of "Bagle," the latest computer worm to circulate via the Internet, appear to be on the wane. Though early reports had some predicting the ...

Dec. 4 -- A new computer virus called Goner is spreading through the Internet today. Although not as technically sophisticated as recent worms such as Nimda or Badtrans, experts warn that the rapidly ...