Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaComputer worm may be headache Conficker will accelerate activity today By: Colin Perkel Posted: 1:00 AM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2009 ...

News New computer virus a throwback 'Here you have' virus is similar to 'Anna Kournikova' attack of 2001 CBC News · Posted: Sep 10, 2010 9:55 AM PDT | Last Updated: September 10, 2010 ...

Security researchers have developed a self-replicating AI worm that can infiltrate people’s emails in order to spread malware and steal data. Dubbed Morris II, after the first ever computer worm ...

A worm can also arrive undetected into your system by exploiting a security vulnerability. You will not even know it and it would already have begun its work in the background.

Having a host is necessary for a computer virus for self-replication. And also, since it cannot act on its own, it needs a necessary action by the user to trigger it.

In Canada, the worm was detected and quickly eliminated on computer systems at Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia, the Quebec Ministry of Transportation and at some Ontario court offices.

A U.S. teenager unleashed a computer worm over the weekend, infecting many user accounts on Twitter.com, which has become a target for mischief-makers as its popularity grows.

Previous versions of the worm contained instructions to scour a list of about 250 Internet domain names which could potentially be used to send instructions to infected computers.

By: IE Staff August 18, 2003August 18, 2003 07:35 IE Staff “Microsoft Corp. appeared to outfox the creators of a computer worm that last week infected hundreds of thousands of computers, limiting ...

Computer security experts said yesterday that new appearances of "Bagle," the latest computer worm to circulate via the Internet, appear to be on the wane. Though early reports had some predicting ...