Maybe up to 8 percent of all home computers are infected, which means tens if not hundreds of millions of PCs. Trojans can be put on a PC by viruses or attached to dubious downloads, such as those you might get through file-sharing network Kazaa or...
Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet millions continue to succumb to attacks that exploit unpatched holes in common platforms such as Windows or Java. The first computer viruses infected the boot sector of floppy disks, which...
However, John Cheney, chief executive of email security firm BlackSpider Technologies, explained that one of the growing trends is for spammers to attach a pornographic image file to their emails and then use HTML code to display the attached image.
According to Trend Micro statistics, the NetSky series has been listed among the top ten viruses since February, accounting for over half of the top ten viruses between April and July. The production of new viruses was concentrated in the first ten...
The computer viruses ran in the background on an infected computer without the knowledge of the computer's owner, allowing the criminals behind the virus to access any private and commercial data stored on the computer, the Metropolitan Police said.
Paul Ducklin, Sophos’ head of technology in the Asia Pacific, said the virus, which Sophos calls Renepo, is designed to infect any Mac OS X drives connected to the infected system and it leaves affected computers vulnerable to further hacker attack.
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