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Two computer worms found last summer topped the charts in March, highlighting the difficulty of eliminating the more successful digital pests from the Internet. Data furnished by e-mail service ...

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.

Computer science researchers are predicting new types of dangerous worms that would be able to infect Web servers, browsers and other software so quickly that the Internet itself could be taken over ...