A worm unleashed in the summer of 1999 that infected Microsoft Exchange mail servers. It replied to each incoming message with "Hi <sender name>! I received your email and will send you a reply ASAP.

Previous viruses, such as Love Bug, Code Red and the Nimda Worm caused problems for millions of computer users across the world.

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

Mydoom, the worst computer virus outbreak in history, caused $38 billion in damage in 2004, but its inflation-adjusted cost is now $52. Two billion dollars. This malware, also known as Novarg, is a ...

For the first time in nearly forty years of intense study, scientists have identified two new viruses that can infect the worms in the wild, opening up new avenues of research in host-virus ...

Now, scientists say that viruses carried by these worms may be one reason they cause such severe illness. In a recent study, published in September in the journal Nature Microbiology, the ...

Cabir was a worm that spread via Bluetooth, and while it wasn't particularly harmful, it demonstrated the potential for mobile phone viruses to propagate and infect other devices. Discovered by ...

There are two types of malware: viruses and worms. Viruses embed in software without consent and infect the computer when the software is opened. A worm spreads itself through a network to affect ...

On Friday the 13th, the infected computer displays the text "Countdown to extinction ...," plays a song, and an animation of the Grim Reaper goes across the screen. The Nople virus is a worm that ...

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