Microsoft yesterday confirmed some of its MSN Hotmail servers were infected with a "Code Red" virus, the computer virus that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's server systems.

The virus exists as a collection of computer instructions attached to another program, called the host. When the host program runs, the virus code runs first.

The virus exists as a collection of computer instructions attached to another program, called the host. When the host program runs, the virus code runs first.

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. Among other things, the virus would display a poem about ...

Anti-virus programs are a cost-effective way to safeguard your computer. Many are free and offer essential protection by detecting, quarantining, or deleting malicious code to prevent damage.

Fears that the Code Red computer worm would cripple the Internet appear to have been unfounded.

Two leading computer security firms have linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the United States ...

Virus writers, forever in search of opportunities to distribute their malicious code, are exploiting interest in the avian flu by circulating an e-mail with an attachment that contains information ...

29A is a group of virus writers whose temporary Web site has this to say under their policies and goals section: “We code viruses for the fun of it, because it’s our hobby, not because we want ...