Microsoft Corp. Windows users whose systems were infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems and then installs ...

The Blaster worm – also known as MSBlast or LoveSAN – has spread rapidly since it was first noticed on Monday. It has infected an estimated 188,000 systems running Microsoft operating systems, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Jeffrey Lee Parson pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to intentionally sending a variant of the MS Blaster computer worm that infected 48,000 computers. Parson, 19, ...

Jeffrey Lee Parson was barely 18 years old and dealing with some personal problems when he launched a variant of the Blaster worm that infected more than 48,000 computers worldwide. On Friday, a ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that a juvenile had been arrested in connection with the release of a computer worm that spread in the same way as the MSBlast worm. The suspect is ...

Government investigators yesterday arrested a Minnesota teenager on charges of unleashing a version of the "Blaster" worm that snarled Internet traffic and shut down computer systems from Maryland to ...

the Scenario: my mom just called, and she's suddenly having serious trouble booting - and when she does boot sucessfully, she's been looking at semi-frequent lockups that force her to do a hard reboot ...

A 19-year-old pleaded guilty in a Minnesota federal court yesterday to spreading the W32.Blaster-B worm over the Internet. Jeffrey Lee Parson, of Hopkins, Minn., said he was responsible for creating ...

The damage the "Blaster" worm caused this week was comparatively limited, computer experts say, and the story of its digital life is hardly different from thousands of other computer bugs released ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. cyber investigators arrested a teenager as one author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed weeks ago on the Internet. 18-year-old Jeffrey Parson is accused of writing a ...

Computer security technologists are racing to find ways to block ever-more complex computer worms and viruses that burrow into computers -- usually via e-mail -- and wreak havoc on network systems.

Microsoft Corp. Windows users infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems, then installs a software patch to ...