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 ...

Yesterday, a signatures update pushed by AVG falsely labeled a critical Windows file as a banker malware, prompting the company to quickly fix the issue and issue a workaround, following end users ...

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 ...

Downloading files from the Internet is an everyday activity for all of us. Whether for work or for entertainment, we often download files. However, a simple virus file downloaded from the internet can ...

After taking last week off, WikiLeaks came back today and released documentation on another CIA cyberweapon. Codenamed Pandemic, this is a tool that targets computers with shared folders, from where ...