Archive for the ‘Viruses’ Category

Cell Phone Virus

You’ve installed the latest virus and malware protection software on your PC. You lock down your home firewall as tightly as you can while still leaving enough open to do business. You train others in your home to use safe computing practices. And, then you find out there’s another route of infection that never even [...]

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Worm Viruses, Deadliest of All

Of the three most common types of malware (malware is short for malicious software, i.e. designed to harm) - viruses, Trojans and worms - the latter is the most harmful because only worms can function without human intervention.
Worms, like viruses, replicate themselves but unlike viruses are completely self-contained. Viruses need a ‘host program’ to spread, [...]

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