Computer security technologists are racing to find ways to block ever-more complex computer worms and viruses that burrow into computers -- usually via e-mail -- and wreak havoc on network systems.

A computer worm is a form of malware that, once it has infected a computer, continues to replicate itself on the infected computer as well as automatically infecting other computers it comes in ...

Computer worms operating in tandem with free AI chatbots like ChatGPT are a “new class of cyberthreat”, security experts have warned. Worms are a type of malware that self-replicate and spread across ...

our ability to protect the Net. the heart of the Internet were affected Saturday by what experts are calling the worst worm since Code Red in 2001. A worm that attacks Microsoft's database software ...

Around the world this week, digital worms have been invading computers at hundreds of thousands of offices and homes. The so-called "Blaster" worm, and variations of it, bog down networks as they ...

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

The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

Self-propagating worms are malicious computer programs, which, after being released, can spread throughout networks without human control, stealing or erasing hard drive data, interfering with ...

A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures ...

Security researchers are tracking holiday attacks by the Storm Worm, a particularly insidious piece of computer malware that has been circulating around the world for about a year. Earlier this week, ...

When an IT technician looked inside a dying computer with malfunctioning processor fan, he discovered what had caused the machine to crash: A worm—not a bug or a virus—an actual 5-inch earthworm. When ...