Security technology company Symantec reported Thursday that it has analyzed what it believes to be the first known threat to 64-bit Windows systems, a virus labeled W64.Rugrat.3344. Representatives at ...

Joe Faulhaber of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center has made the interesting claim that 64-bit Windows 7 is actually safer than ordinary, 32-bit Windows. He’s right. “64-bit Windows [does] has ...

Symantec Corp. has captured an example of what is believed to be the first virus that targets 64-bit Microsoft Corp. Windows operating systems, the company said. The company posted a security advisory ...

Virus writers have unleashed the first program that infects 64-bit Windows files, antivirus firm Symantec said Monday. The virus, dubbed W64.Shruggle by Symantec, seems mainly to be an experiment to ...

Isn’t the built-in security on today’s PCs, phones, and tablets good enough? The answer depends on the OS you’re running. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC ...