Zeus, internet banking virus back!

A virus named Zeus, that steals online banking details from infected computer users, is more powerful than ever, warns web security company, Trusteer. It says it has seen a completely new version of the Trojan Zeus virus in one of every 3,000 of the 5.5m computers it monitors in the US and UK.

Zeus works by stealing the login information (recording keystrokes) of a user when they are on target websites - usually banks and other financial institutions. The user's data is then sent to a remote server to be used and sold on by cyber-criminals.

Trusteer claims that Zeus 1.6 can infect people using the web browsers Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Source: Infosecurity USA

Internet use - Top 10 European countries

Data from 30 September 2009 showed that the UK had 46.7 million internet users, second only to Germany, with 54.2 million.

Following behind was Russia (45.3 million), France (43.1), Italy (30.0), Spain (29.1), Turkey (26.5), Poland (20.0), and the Netherlands (14.3). Ukraine was last with 10.4 million users.

Source: Internet World Stats