A new virus carried by programs embedded in Adobe's PDF file format files raises concerns that the format itself could become susceptible to viruses. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FireEye, Inc., the leader in stopping advanced targeted attacks, today announced its File Malware Protection System (MPS) that detects and eliminates advanced malware ...

A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe tricks its victims into trashing a harmless, and potentially helpful, Windows utility. The e-mail, which was ...

The LokiBot malware family has been given a significant upgrade with the ability to hide its source code in image files on infected machines. Known as steganography, the technique is used to hide ...

Recently, our anti-virus laboratory discovered an interesting new modification of a file virus known as Expiro which targets 64-bit files for infection. File-infecting viruses are well known and have ...

It has been over a decade since the famous ILOVEYOU virus was let loose on the world, MyDoom was considered an email menace back in the day, and the Slammer virus is remembered for crashing the Bank ...

A computer virus called Sircam is using some clever tricks to spread itself and potentially sensitive files around the net. The virus strikes PCs running Windows, plunders address books for new places ...

If you had a virus-type script file that was removed from your hard disk by your antivirus software but is now seeing this message: "Cannot find script file C:\windows\system32\FaAntivirus.vbs" it may ...

A new virus can, for the first time, infect image files, according to antivirus software company McAfee.com Corp., a division of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Network Associates Inc. That means the virus ...