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A computer virus in the DOS/Windows environment that takes advantage of the fact that .COM and .EXE are two valid executable extensions for program files, and .COM takes precedence. For example ...

In early 2004, a handful of employees worldwide received a strange email with an attachment, marking the start of the fastest-growing computer virus in history. Known as MyDoom (or Novarg), this ...

US prosecutors Tuesday extradited a Romanian man from Colombia to the US over accusations that the man helped distribute the Gozi virus, one of the most financially destructive computer viruses in ...

The virus hit the city April 9, said Fredrick Wilson, the city’s director of information technology, about a week before the launch of the city's first Tech Jackson summit.

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors charged three people in as many countries with creating and distributing a computer virus that infected more than a million computers around the world, including ...