And then came Brain. Discovered in the first weeks of 1986, it was the first PC virus to widely circulate in the wild. Distributed via 5.25-inch floppy diskettes, Brain's spread was extremely slow ...

The Cookie Monster virus might be the world's first computer virus; it was created in the 1960s by MIT students to annoy their fellow classmates. The virus freezes everything on the computer, and ...

There are two types of malware: viruses and worms. Viruses embed in software without consent and infect the computer when the software is opened. A worm spreads itself through a network to affect ...