It is not surprising that a major security vendor wants to tap into the growing Linux desktop market, especially as more people adopt Linux for both personal and professional use. Even so, the arrival ...

No operating system is 100% safe. As long as your computer is connected to a network, there is always the possibility that it can be compromised. These compromises can come by way of viruses, malware, ...

A newly discovered Linux variant of the SystemBC remote access trojan has infected over 10,000 hosting servers globally.

Users and resellers of RAV AntiVirus, popular especially on Linux platforms, are in limbo after Microsoft Corp. announced plans to buy the RAV technology from Romania’s GeCAD Software Srl. The RAV ...

Based on the company's McAfee virus-scanning engine, LinuxShield scans for viruses, worms, and other malicious code that can threaten Linux systems. It features automatic signature updates and can ...

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

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 ...

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 ...