While some reports have been comparing this week's bot outbreak -- which attacks unpatched Windows 2000 PCs -- as similar to 2004's Sasser blitz or the even bigger MSBlast incident in 2003, experts ...

A new worm that targets three critical holes discovered in Windows last week has emerged. The Zotob worm is spreading like sasser, and has been called faster than previous computer worms. Zotob is ...

Was it the worm that wasn’t or the worm that was? That seemed to be the big question last week when the Zotob worm appeared just three days after Microsoft released patch MS05-039 to close a ...

Security vendors have reported several new variants of the worm infecting PCs running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system. Groups of virus writers are competing to cause the most damage, ...

Wolf Blitzer was in crisis mode, warning computer users to protect themselves. Paula Zahn started her program by reporting on crashing PCs in the CNN newsroom. And Charles Gibson talked about needing ...

Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows PCs last year. Farid Essebar, 19, of Morocco was sentenced to two years in ...

While most of the IT world has been spared a devasting security attack like Blaster and Sasser for the last few years, the damage wrought by all manner lesser-known computer viruses continues to ...