Roundworms, also known as nematodes, are a leading cause of parasitic infection worldwide, causing painful swelling, severe abdominal pain and even blindness. Now, scientists say that viruses ...

U.K.-based Sophos spotted more than 10,700 new viruses, worms, and Trojan horses during the 12-month span of November 2003, to November 2004, a 51.8 percent increase over the same period a year ago.

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 ...

The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans may now be able to take a sick day. For the first time in nearly forty years of intense study, scientists have identified two new viruses that can infect the ...

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 ...

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.