Public access to hundreds of Defense Department computer Web sites was restored yesterday, after protection was installed against the damaging "Code Red" computer worm, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.

Night owls who tried to log on to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s Web site early Wednesday were stymied by a faux hack job that turned out to be a computer virus, officials said.

After a long weekend, I was hoping for a nice, quiet day spent cleaning up my e-mail and planning my budgets for next year. Instead, I faced the Nimda worm. This delightful virus is like Code Red on ...