As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

In most cases, a factory reset should get rid of any viruses or malware on your computer. However it may not be effective for viruses like rootkits.

On February 13, 2006, a screenshot of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X Leopard leaked through iChat. Those who opened the attached "latestpics.jpg" encountered a worm, nicknamed Leap.A (Oompa Loompa), ...

The virus exists as a collection of computer instructions attached to another program, called the host. When the host program runs, the virus code runs first.

Who was responsible for the ILOVEYOU virus? The architect behind the infamous virus, Onel de Guzman, was a student at the time studying at AMA Computer College in the Philippines.

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. Among other things, the virus would display a poem about ...

It was Looney Tunes’ resident grump Elmer Fudd who named the first computer virus. He was famous for describing his perennial nemesis Bugs Bunny as “that wascally wabbit”. And when the first ...