Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Computer technicians all over town are struggling to weed out a variety of viruses and worms ...

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Concordia College's bout with computer worms that required officials to disconnect 1,200 computers from the network will likely be over this week. Steve Frank, director of computer services, said all ...

A computer worm that infiltrated hundreds of thousands of computers last month is expected to awaken tomorrow, destroying documents and files on infected machines and networks, Microsoft Corp. and ...

Penn State University researchers have created technology they say can nab computer worms more quickly than traditional signature-based systems and speedily set free the traffic if it’s determined to ...

You’d think keeping things secure would be easy, with artificial intelligence getting sharper every day. I mean, if it can crank out intricate code in no time, fending off cyber crooks should be a ...

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, ...

A new computer worm, Sobig, is spreading on the Internet, according to alerts posted by a number of antivirus software companies. Sobig uses e-mail and shared network folders to infect machines ...

A new computer worm spreading across the Internet captures a user’s keystrokes and creates a back door that could give an attacker access to the infected system or make it possible for the machine to ...

Personal computer users across the Quad-Cities are falling victim to the virtual ``worm'' that is crashing systems nationwide. Many local Internet providers, businesses and institutions weren't ...

A new variant of the SoBig email worm has stormed computers around the globe to become the fastest spreading virus yet seen, say experts. The reason for SoBig.F’s virulence appears to be a combination ...