Police arrest three men for alleged spread of email virus
Police have arrested three men for an alleged plot to spread a computer virus via email. The men come from Suffolk, Scotland and Finland. Detective Constable Bob Burls, of the Met Police's computer crime unit, said: "The international co-operation between the specialist law enforcement units has produced this really significant result.
The virus being spread ran on a users computer without their knowledge allowing criminals to access information on that computer.
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While this story describes the malicious software as a virus, it is probably more accurate to describe it as Spyware since it displays more of the characteristics of this type of threat.
To learn more about the threat of Spyware read the following library document:
Spyware - what it is and the risk to you