"Our concern is more for what might be coming," says Vincent Gullotto, head antivirus researcher at McAfee Security, which produces top-selling antivirus software. "Potentially no file type could be ...

Third-party programs are widely used on Windows and other operating systems. But how can you tell if a program is safe to install or not? How can you be so sure that the program file you are going to ...

A new virus threatens to strike one of the Internet’s most common and useful activities: sharing family photos. The malicious program, the first to infect picture files, is not attacking computers.

A new virus can, for the first time, infect image files, according to antivirus software company McAfee Security, a division of Network Associates Inc. This means that the virus could be spread ...

Did a strange file attachment just land in your inbox? Or maybe you downloaded some software and don't want to run it without being absolutely positive it's virus-free. Enter VirusTotal.com, a free ...

It has been over a decade since the famous ILOVEYOU virus was let loose on the world, MyDoom was considered an email menace back in the day, and the Slammer virus is remembered for crashing the Bank ...

One of the biggest potential drawbacks to file sharing is the potential for downloading a hidden virus or malware. Of the top two torrent sites, The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, is one safer than ...