Think twice before you click on that link—even if it was sent to you by a friend or family member. Simply put, a computer virus is a program that you did not install which often performs malicious ...

It has been about 26 years since the creation of the first computer virus. Today, the number of viruses has increased to over 250,000, and each one has the potential to damage your computer and your ...

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Unlike Apple's App Store, Facebook does not regulate the process of posting apps to Facebook. Anyone can write a game app and throw it up for users to start playing immediately. However, this anyone ...

As you might have read, we decided to declare November 3 as Antimalware Day because it was on this date in 1983, when computer scientist Dr. Fred Cohen, then a student, created a program capable of ...

Q: I clicked on a link in what seemed to be a legitimate website and immediately a Trojan horse pop-up came up on the screen. I tried to close down and back out, which it would not let me do so. There ...

The Possible MALWARE or SPYWARE Download Tech Support Scam is a common browser based scam that tries to trick people into thinking that their computer is infected and that a live support person is ...

Computer hackers could create malicious software that crosses the line from technology to biology, crafting viruses that could spread dangerous epidemics, researchers said at Black Hat Europe. “We are ...

Be careful what you use to keep your computers bug-free, or it might end up bugging you. All high-end anti-virus programs perform the same basic functions: monitoring the hard drive for suspicious ...

A computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis has developed technology to stop malicious software – malware – such as viruses and worms long before it even has a chance to reach computers ...