It's important to know the signs of a virus, so that you can act quickly to get rid of any malware and stay safe in future. A virus is a type of malicious software, or malware, that can replicate ...

In 2025, computer viruses are getting smarter! Hackers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to create tricky emails that look real, make malware that can hide from normal security programs, and even ...

In 2022, there were over 1.3 billion malware programmes in existence and 10% of these were computer viruses, according to research from the AV-Test Institute. A computer virus may spread from one ...

You surely have some idea how a computer virus works, though you may not know the details. Somehow it weasels its way into your computer, and then the computer slows way down…or it starts making ...

Anna Kournikova may be a so-so tennis player, but she makes a world-beating computer virus. Thousands of people have been tricked into opening a mail message that says it contains a picture of Anna ...

For the photographer from Yorkshire, UK, it was nothing short of a disaster. Late one night he was putting the finishing touches to his latest set of wedding photographs due for delivery to his ...

If you've ever had to spend a lot of money on antivirus software, you'd be forgiven for wanting to take Dr Fred Cohen aside for, to put it politely, a few choice words. But although Dr Cohen is ...

A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading had a chip inserted in his hand which was then ...