Antivirus software vendors are reporting the appearance of the first virus capable of infecting applications on systems running either Windows or Linux operating systems, although they said it poses ...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On ...

New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community. Ever since viruses came to ...