Richard Ford

This week’s Please Explain is about computer worms and viruses. Richard Ford, from the Center for Security Science at the Florida Institute of Technology, and Lance Ulanoff, Editor in Chief of PC Magazine, tell us how viruses and worms are created, how they infiltrate individual computers, explain the damage they can wreak and how we can best protect our machines.

He's not the type of novelist who cranks out a new book every year. Ideas marinate in Richard Ford's mind for years - sometimes fifty years - before they surface in his stories. Ford spent so much time gathering material and reworking the manuscript of his latest ...