This winter’s perfect storm of viruses is putting unprecedented strain ... accounting for a whopping 4.8% of all emergency room visits. That’s significantly higher than usual for this time ...

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 ...

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 ...

4. Following on from Q4 ... broached the idea of self-replicating computer programs, which viruses later came to be.

Created by two programmers named Basit and Amjad, Brain was a boot virus that ran when a computer was booted up with an infected floppy diskette in the A: drive. (Remember when floppy disks were ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Police Department on May 28 arrested a man on suspicion of creating a computer virus using interactive generative artificial intelligence in a potential ransomware threat to ...