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• Anti-virus no defence against botnets, says vendor

  A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs - many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.

• Spam surge precedes Xtra email issues

  There was a 50% increase in spam on the Thursday just before Telecom switched its Xtra email platform to Yahoo, says Thom Hooker, director of operations at Auckland-based secure email software developer SMX.

• Kiwi Honeynet researchers probe internet bad guys

  By putting out honeypots — easily compromised computers designed to trap attackers — four volunteer researchers in New Zealand are trying to find out what makes cyber-criminals tick.

• Anti-spam Act places onus of proof on computer users

  The anti-spam Act, which also goes by the unexciting name of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act, could encourage computer users to update their security software.