Officials in The Hague have banned a demonstration by a group campaigning against cornavirus social distancing measures. The group, calling itself Virus Waanzin (virus lunacy), had planned to gather ...

If a virus is hiding in a program that is open, regular antivirus software cannot detect it. However, the FixMeStick reboots your computer using a system on the stick, so it's able to remove the ...

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 ...

A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP A man uses a laptop at a coffee shop in downtown Hanoi. - AFP In 2022, there were over 1.3 billion malware programmes in existence and ...

Six signs of a computer virus 1. Slow performance If you’re questioning whether your computer has a virus, observing its performance is one of the first tell-tale signs.

Anti-virus programs are a cost-effective way to safeguard your computer. Many are free and offer essential protection by detecting, quarantining, or deleting malicious code to prevent damage.

The virus exists as a collection of computer instructions attached to another program, called the host. When the host program runs, the virus code runs first.

The virus -- officially known as VBS.VBSWG2 -- doesn't destroy computer files, but it can crash corporate e-mail servers by sending thousands of e-mails at a time.