If your PC is acting weird and showing signs of malware, you might be wondering if a factory reset can fix it. A factory reset wipes everything on your PC, including your apps, photos, videos, and ...

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A Co Down teenager has been charged with creating a computer virus which "crashed hundreds of financial institutions" across the world. Josh Maunder, 18, was charged with 21 offences, including 13 ...

Your computer suddenly runs like molasses One of the most obvious signs of infection is a dramatic slowdown in your computer’s performance. If your once-speedy machine now takes forever to start ...

Our immune system naturally weakens as we get older, this may allow the usually inactive virus to reactivate, causing shingles. People over 50 are most at risk, but it can happen in younger ages.

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.

This is not a ruse to get malware on your laptop, dear reader. The Malware Museum is a collection of vintage viruses that made their way around computers of the 1980s and 1990s.

Such viruses might invade systems in the form of a mass e-mailed bug, then take control of a user's computer - turning it into what Mr Weafer calls a "zombie" computer.

Virus writers, forever in search of opportunities to distribute their malicious code, are exploiting interest in the avian flu by circulating an e-mail with an attachment that contains information ...