Australian computer users are coming under seige, with two separate worms infiltrating systems with damaging and costly effect.
The Victorian and Australian Federal Police forces last week raided a suspected internet fraudster based in Melbourne, the ABC's Four Corners revealed last night.
A new mass-mailer virus designed to seize credit-card information and passwords has surfaced in the United States overnight and poses a threat to computer users in Australia.
A computer virus that camouflages itself as a message from PayPal has started spreading among home users, antivirus companies said.
Security firm Sophos has seen a dramatic rise in the number of viruses, worms and Trojan horses this year as more organised criminals turn to cybercrime.
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help/how to How to recognise and remove the latest Mimail variant, which will try to steal credit card details.
A very clever mass-mailing worm is spreading rapidly across the Internet and has many different components, each timed to trigger different processes.
Security weaknesses in Microsoft's server and browser software are taking their toll on Australian Internet banking sites.
BitDefender Antivirus 10 is a solid antivirus and antispyware solution, offering two-year subscriptions for the price of one elsewhere; however, it could be faster, offer built-in help, and uninstall better.
CA Antivirus 2007 provides a good antivirus engine, adequately protecting your desktop from basic malicious viruses and worms. But the application has a few interface glitches and provides less-than-optimal technical support.
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Before you entrust your credit card information to a malicious user, find out what the American Red Cross has to say about the Septer Trojan horse.
RecoverMyFiles 2.16 is a solid file recovery utility with local roots. Read our Australian review.
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