CNET News.com answers common questions regarding the SirCam worm, including what to do if you receive infected messages.

The Conficker computer worm, a worldwide infection that could activate today, could be as harmless as April Fool's or as serious as robbery. The worm that already has wiggled into unprotected ...

Self-replicating attack forces site accounts to post trolls' offensive screed. So much exposure used for... nothing. If you are going to do something like this at least pass a worthy message, for ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Several new variants of a computer worm emerged Wednesday to attack corporate networks running the Windows 2000 operating system, just a week after Microsoft Corp. warned of the ...

A computer worm that infiltrated hundreds of thousands of computers last month is expected to awaken tomorrow, destroying documents and files on infected machines and networks, Microsoft Corp. and ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers have begun exploiting the newly identified "Shellshock" computer bug, using fast-moving worm viruses to scan for vulnerable systems and then infect them, researchers warned ...

TEHRAN - Iran suspects that a foreign organization or nation designed "Stuxnet," a quickly mutating computer worm that has been infiltrating industrial computer systems in the Islamic republic, a high ...

Uncertainty surrounded the notorious computer worm Tuesday, the day before it was set to activate on potentially millions of machines. Yet computer professionals, including Gavin Manes, founder of ...

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