Security giant Symantec overnight said it would acquire email security services provider MessageLabs.
Russian antivirus company Kaspersky has launched a hosted e-mail-filtering service in Europe, however plans for Australia are yet to be revealed.
The most popular antivirus applications on the market are rendered useless by around 80 percent of new malware, according to AusCERT.
Cisco's recent acquisition of e-mail security firm IronPort has pushed the networking giant into direct competition with MessageLabs as well as traditional antivirus vendors such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro.
Antivirus companies are warning of a damaging new e-mail worm, which, when activated, deletes all files on drives labelled D, E, F and G.
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Anti-virus companies said they intercepted several copies of a new password-stealing Trojan over the weekend.
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