After 33 years, Bernardo Quintero decided it was time to find the person who changed his life — the anonymous programmer who created a computer virus that had infected his university decades earlier.

A nasty, highly contagious virus is spreading across the country ahead of the holiday season — and it’s not the flu or Covid. Norovirus, also called the “winter vomiting disease,” has been rising ...

When your system suddenly stops responding, the first thing to do is to wait a minute. Rebooting is useful, as it clears temporary files, refreshes system memory, and resolves a surprising number of ...

Hacking groups—at least one of which works on behalf of the North Korean government—have found a new and inexpensive way to distribute malware from “bulletproof” hosts: stashing them on public ...

We trust Macs to be reliable, secure and mostly resistant to viruses. Apple's software reputation has long been built around the idea that macOS is harder to compromise than Windows. And while there ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

This is my simple way to remove viruses and malware from a Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC in just a few steps. I show how I use built-in tools like Disk Cleanup and the Microsoft Malicious Software ...