A new virus carried by programs embedded in Adobe's PDF file format files raises concerns that the format itself could become susceptible to viruses. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FireEye, Inc., the leader in stopping advanced targeted attacks, today announced its File Malware Protection System (MPS) that detects and eliminates advanced malware ...

When it’s time to upgrade to a new computer, the excitement can be overshadowed by the concern of transferring existing data without bringing along any unwanted viruses or malware. Philip from Troy, ...

A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe tricks its victims into trashing a harmless, and potentially helpful, Windows utility. The e-mail, which was ...

A computer virus called Sircam is using some clever tricks to spread itself and potentially sensitive files around the net. The virus strikes PCs running Windows, plunders address books for new places ...

After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users. Last week, researchers from the ...

A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet’s most common and useful activities: sharing family photos. The malicious program, the first to infect picture files, is not attacking computers.

File Restore is a fake hard drive diagnostic program from the Rogue.FakeHDD family of scareware programs. This family of computer infections pretends to be a hard drive diagnostic and repair program ...

The newly disrupted ZeroAccess botnet was previously spotted putting a new spin on infecting a user: injecting itself into the download process of Adobe Flash. It used a new variant of the infamous ...

A Japanese man named Masato Nakatsuji has been arrested and accused of writing a computer virus that replaces all the files on a person's computer with home-made manga images of squid, octopuses and ...