A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

The virus, Code Red, is due to go off at 1am tomorrow, attacking the web sites of companies which have not inoculated their systems with a freely-available patch. It is feared that the worm may be ...

It looks like a nice love letter, but it actually erases all your local files. The Code Red virus was named by the researchers who discovered it after the drink Code Red Mountain Dew. It causes ...