Virus tracks IE banking transactions

The SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) has been informed of a malicious pop-up browser window that can result in the installation of a virus able to record and send out keyboard activity when dealing online with a number of banks. The organisation says it was asked for help last Wednesday in dealing with an attack on a company's computer that left a compressed file called img1big.gif on a machine. ...more

Search Marketeers' Association holds inaugural meeting

Many of Britain's search marketing professionals have come together to form their own trade association. The Search Marketing Association UK held its first meeting at the annual Search Engine Strategies meeting in London. The association is open to anyone who is involved in search engine marketing whether it is organic optimisation, pay per click and pay per inclusion marketing or web analytics. ...more

BT forces ISPs to stump up activation fee

BT Wholesale's halving of its ADSL activation fee comes to an end this month, much to the disappointment of ISPs and indeed consumers, to whom the promotional discount has been passed on. BT Wholesale introduced a promotional offer earlier this year that halved the ?50 fee the company charges to activate an ADSL connection. It comes to an end on 31 March and although BT has not returned requests for comment, Tiscali tells us that the charge is to be re-instated. ...more

Iomega launches REV backup system

Storage specialist Iomega has launched what it calls a new alternative to existing backup solutions with REV. The drive, which measures just 10 x 77 x 75 mm, is being touted as offering both the removability of tape with the speed and usability of hard disks. Each disk is said to hold 35GB of uncompressed, 90GB of compressed, data. ...more

Microsoft to squeeze ISPs over Hotmail spam

Microsoft's MSN Hotmail service has made a suite of tools available to ISPs to help them identify spam traffic carried on their networks. The MSN Postmaster website offers detailed information on email sent to its Hotmail accounts through its Smart Network Data Services monitoring. An ISP can check its range of IP addresses with the service and find out how much mail it sends to Hotmail, how much is eaten by Microsoft's own anti-spam technologies and identify sources of spam and bulk mailing so that network owners can decide on what action to take. ...more