TORONTO -- It's no joke. Computer experts worldwide are waiting to see exactly how much munching a wily worm that is decidedly not garden-variety will do starting April 1. *Billed as $4.00 plus ...

The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It’s unclear whether everyday ...

In 1986, a couple of programmers at a computer shop in Lahore, Pakistan, created an anti-piracy tool that was effectively a boot sector virus. Its code contained the authors' names and addresses.

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Starting Wednesday, the worm is expected to randomly generate a list of up to 50,000 domain names a day -- such as www.xyz.ca -- as a smokescreen to hide the address of its command computer.

Although the virus didn't cause serious damage, it displayed the phone number of the brothers' computer shop for repairs. 'It was some dumb little practical joke.' ...

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 malicious computer worm, which has already infected potentially millions of computers around the world, could cause major cyber headaches on April 1, say computer experts.

A new computer worm, Sobig, is spreading on the Internet, according to alerts posted by a number of antivirus software companies. Sobig uses e-mail and shared network folders to infect machines ...