The human race is riddled with worms. They coil and squirm and chew through most of the world’s population. When the average man dies, a host of worms dies with him. But wormkind goes wriggling on, to ...

On Wednesday night anti-virus software vendor Trend Micro issued a yellow (or medium) alert for what it refers to as Worm_Fretheme.E. Anti-virus vendors sometimes use different names for worms, and ...

A new worm materialized yesterday in the U.S. Pacific region and was continuing a slow circulation across the U.S. mainland last night in search of compromised computer systems. VeriSign engineers ...

Another strain of the MyDoom worm is on the loose and is spreading quickly today, according to antivirus firm Sophos. The new MyDoom variant emerged yesterday and can use search engines Google, Yahoo, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Jack Sanchez, a Manhattan ...

A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.

A woman’s selfies helped her monitor the movements of an unwelcome guest: a roving parasitic worm living in her face. Thankfully, doctors were able to get the pesky pest—which she likely caught ...

The man was infected with a type of roundworm called Strongyloides stercoralis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rash that ...