It’s always frustrating to find that your computer has been infected with a virus, especially one that can potentially wipe your files. However one hacker decided that he would bring a little humor to ...

One of our readers reported that all the file extensions have changed to some unknown file format. If so, it could be a virus! If a virus has changed all the files extensions to unknown applications, ...

Computers are prone to virus attacks. People take various measures to protect themselves from such malware attacks, but may still find themselves ill-prepared. One of the major consequences of a virus ...

Antivirus software protects your computer by scanning every file you download for viruses and other malware. Most of the time, you’ll want to leave your antivirus program running as-is. If it’s ...

A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP In 2022, there were over 1.3 billion malware programmes in existence and 10 ...

An anti-virus program registering every executable file on the computer as infected indicates the computer may be under attack by a virus. According to PC Magazine, a virus attaches copies of itself ...

Is your antivirus preventing you from completing important tasks? We’ll walk you through how to temporarily disable your antivirus and why you may need to. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- A new computer virus is the first ever to infect picture files, an anti-virus firm reported Thursday, making sharing family photos on the Internet a potentially dangerous ...

A particularly malicious virus can at worst disable a hard drive temporarily. A virus alone is not enough to physically break a hard drive or completely disable a hard drive to the point where it ...

According to Japanese site, Asahi.com, a Japanese hacker was arrested for allegedly writing a computer virus that destroys all files on a victim’s computer and replaces them with homemade manga images ...

FORT GORDON, Ga. - Conficker worm, botnet, GhostNet, viruses, scareware; these and many other threats make operating in cyberspace scary and dangerous. Yet, many people carelessly operate their ...

A computer virus that rewrites the executable file it targets rather than attaching itself to the file and running along with it. See virus. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...