An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 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 ...

NEW YORK -- The continued spread yesterday of a cleverly engineered computer virus exposes a key flaw in the global embrace of technology: Its users are human. Posing ...

For the past three years, a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker has been spreading rapidly around the world. As many as 12 million computers have been infected with the self-updating worm, ...

A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new "worm" software program that purports to rid computers of malicious viruses actually leaves the viruses intact and chews up files instead, security experts said Friday. The worm, ...

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 ...

Computer security experts said yesterday that new appearances of "Bagle," the latest computer worm to circulate via the Internet, appear to be on the wane. Though early reports had some predicting the ...

The mass-mailing worm, called Avril or Lirva, spreads via e-mail and also through ICQ, Kazaa and mIRC, according to F-Secure. The worm also tries to spread through open shares and Windows network ...

The worm _ called "Mydoom,' "Novarg' or "WORM_MIMAIL.R' _ was replicating itself so quickly that some corporate networks were clogged with infected traffic within hours of its appearance Monday. Its ...

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 ...

The Conficker computer worm didn't turn out to be much of an April Fools' gag. The much-hyped malware didn't do catastrophic damage to the world's computers Wednesday as some had feared. However, ...