The Ika-Tako virus looks like a regular music file ... It causes the infected computer to initiate a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the White House's website.

The first computer virus was named Creeper, created in 1971 by Robert Thomas, a programmer at BBN Technologies (Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., which later became part of Raytheon). Unlike the ...

Most antivirus relies on these blacklists to protect your computer or another ... virus and the polymorphic virus is that it changes its components to look like a different software before ...

No wonder viruses became an ideal weapon model in a totally different world — a world of programming. The first computer viruses were created as early as in the 1970s. Starting as pranks, they evolved ...

The first full-stealth computer virus. In 1986, Brain was developed by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi, who were annoyed at having their heart monitoring software copied for free.

While the first computer virus (Creeper) was released on the ARPANET as a harmless experiment, the first computer virus to be released in the wild didn't have malicious intent either. Called ...

1. On January 30, 1982, computer programmer Richard Skrenta wrote the world’s first computer virus that ‘escaped’ to other networks. Among other things, the virus would display a poem about ...

Computer virus and malware often pose as legitimate piece of code and regular apps to hoodwink their victims. The latest in the series is a malware called Ferret is stealing data from MacBook users.

He had heard about this type of computer virus and how dangerous it could ... of what a grateful illustrator imagined he might look like. It shows a portly man wearing a polar bear hat.