Although ANIMAL, Wabbit, and Elk Cloner came before it, many consider Brain to be one of the first computer viruses ... It’s ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer ...

No wonder viruses became an ideal weapon model in a totally different world — a world of programming. The first computer viruses were created as early as in the 1970s. Starting as pranks, they evolved ...

Computer viruses can invade your system without you noticing, disrupting its operation and even stealing your data. To ...

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

Now that personal computers have been a part of everyday life for about 30 years, computer viruses aren't as mysterious as they once were. Simply put, a virus is a kind of malware that has the ...

Most of these shambling data revenants are computer viruses and the most long-lived ... two variants of Conficker picked one domain from a list of 250 randomly generated names.