When we asked readers to send their questions about coronavirus, a common theme emerged: Many people are fearful about tracking the virus into their homes on their clothes, their shoes, the mail and ...

The ‘Virus and Threat Protection‘ area in Windows Security, is one of the seven areas that protect your device and let you specify how you want your device protected in Windows Security Center. Virus ...

"Virus" is a word we hear thrown around a lot. But what exactly is a virus? Biologically speaking, viruses are tiny microorganisms, even smaller than bacteria, made up of DNA or RNA. What that means ...

Antivirus software is not free of errors and sometimes reports computer viruses where there are none. For this reason, the company Procolored, a manufacturer of textile printers, indignantly defended ...

This is the error that comes up instead of the regular scanning options, so what now? It’s pretty difficult to tell what is the cause of the issue here, but we can ...

It is considered extremely rare for Apple products to catch any sort of virus. That's no accident; it's entirely by design. With a Mac computer, for example, security is built-in. "To safely support ...

Researchers at Chiron made virology history in 1987 when they discovered the hepatitis C virus (HCV), not by isolating viral particles, but by cloning and sequencing its genome. Subsequently, ...

The human mind loves to categorize things, and malware is no exception. We here at CSO have done our part: our malware explainer breaks down malware based on how it spreads (self-propagating worms, ...

Oropouche virus disease, sometimes called Oropouche fever or sloth fever, is an illness caused by the Oropouche virus that’s spread mostly by biting midges. Oropouche virus is found mostly in a few ...

Statistically speaking, the virus known as Epstein-Barr is inside you right now. It is inside 95 percent of us. It spreads through saliva, so perhaps you first caught the virus as a baby from your ...