By René Millman

Ordinary PC users do not take computer security seriously enough and are not prepared to pay for it, a BT chief has said.

Andrew Burke, chief executive of BT Entertainment, told Reuters at a broadband conference in Montpellier, France, that consumers are reluctant to pay for better security.

"Most consumers believe that the threat is less than it is and the protection they have is better than it is," said Burke. "They (consumers) need to have the best protection and getting them to pay for it can be difficult."

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 08:40

By: John Dunn, Security editor

It's hard to feel sorry for anyone making a living out of selling keylogging software.

Officially, there are legitimate uses for putting software on a PC in order to monitor how that computer is being used but we can’t think of many.

A parent watching how a child is using the Internet? Companies that want to make sure their staff aren’t skiving when they’re supposed to be working? Perhaps.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Adware, Spyware and Trojans at 11:16

By William Eazel

A newly discovered variant of the Mitglieder family of Trojans, Mitglieder.GB, is spreading rapidly across Europe, antivirus experts warned today.

PandaLabs said the Trojan has recently overtaken Sober.AH to become the most frequently detected virus, with the greatest detection rate occuring in Europe, mainly in Poland, Belgium and France.

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 08:53

WASHINGTON: A fake "FBI Windows" virus is spreading on-line that may affect your PC with well-known Sober virus. It comes in a mail that claims to come from either the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or German police agency BKA and warns users they have been detected visiting illegal sites, according to the on-line edition of BBC News. The subject line of the message also claims that "You visit illegal websites" or "Your IP was logged".

Posted by Greg Hewitt-Long in Virus & AntiVirus News at 08:49