A new virus carried by programs embedded in Adobe's PDF file format files raises concerns that the format itself could become susceptible to viruses. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FireEye, Inc., the leader in stopping advanced targeted attacks, today announced its File Malware Protection System (MPS) that detects and eliminates advanced malware ...
A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe tricks its victims into trashing a harmless, and potentially helpful, Windows utility. The e-mail, which was ...
Recently, our anti-virus laboratory discovered an interesting new modification of a file virus known as Expiro which targets 64-bit files for infection. File-infecting viruses are well known and have ...
MacOS is generally perceived to be more effective at keeping malware out compared to PCs and other operating systems. However, that's not the reality; MacOS is just as vulnerable to malware threats as ...
A computer virus called Sircam is using some clever tricks to spread itself and potentially sensitive files around the net. The virus strikes PCs running Windows, plunders address books for new places ...
After aggressively using JavaScript email attachments to distribute malware for the past year, attackers are now switching to less suspicious file types to trick users. Last week, researchers from the ...
File Restore is a fake hard drive diagnostic program from the Rogue.FakeHDD family of scareware programs. This family of computer infections pretends to be a hard drive diagnostic and repair program ...
The newly disrupted ZeroAccess botnet was previously spotted putting a new spin on infecting a user: injecting itself into the download process of Adobe Flash. It used a new variant of the infamous ...