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Trend Micro has inked an agreement for its U.S. subsidiary to acquire InterMute, a maker of anti-spyware products. The number of web sites that install spyware is growing, according to a report released Tuesday by Webroot Software. The recent attempted robbery of £220 million from the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in London last month has brought the problem of spyware and keyloggers into sharp relief.

The emerging spyware threat is spawning a horde of anti-spyware products. Some have been around for a while, such as the excellent AdAware and Spybot – Search and Destroy.

Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center have been tracking domain name system (DNS) cache poisoning attacks that redirected users to malicious web sites. The Ivy League is just as exposed to malware as anyone, finds Marcia Savage. So how did Dartmouth College tackle the big issue? The three founding members of the Consortium of Anti-Spyware Technology vendors (COAST) have dropped out of the group, effectively disbanding the effort. Spyware is a term whose use is becoming increasingly frequent in the lexicon of internet security threats. Just as computer users begin to think that their systems are protected against current menaces – various types of computer malware and spam, etc, so they are faced with yet another challenge. But just how big a threat is spyware for the corporate and home computer user today? Federal officials will continue to fight the spyware problem despite December’s setbacks, it has been revealed. The Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge (Spyblock) Act failed to get through congress before it adjourned in September, but officials say it is only a matter of time. The next generation of phishing attacks will maliciously redirect users to bogus web sites when they try to visit legitimate sites, email security firm MX Logic warned. Banner advertising is being used to deliver the Bofra worm to visitors of European websites. Users of a number of high profile sites will find that clicking on banner ads redirects them to websites that exploit an unpatched flaw in Internet Explorer. Researchers have discovered a previously undocumented instant messaging (IM) worm that targets AOL’s AIM applications. The recently discovered worm is coded to exploit PC hosts infected with lockx.exe or palsp.exe. It uses IRC enabled malware to connect the host to a server for further infection through a series of commands. Computer Associates announced Monday that it acquired PestPatrol, a privately held supplier of anti-spyware technology. Users of the popular social networking website Myspace.com were warned against downloading videos from friends after it was revealed that the videos led to adware being installed on computers. An adware company has filed suit against several individuals who, it claimed, exploited security holes to secretly install software on users' computers without their knowledge or consent.

It is something of an industry tradition that each passing year will herald a flurry of software vendors bearing updated editions of their major product lines. Symantec has pitched up with a 2004-suffixed edition of Norton AntiVirus, the latest revision of the electronic infection-fighting tool trusted by millions of PC users around the world.

A couple of years ago privacy advocates were bringing cookies, and the privacy issues related to them, to the attention of the general public. Internet marketing and viruses have much in common: they are annoying, unwanted, and usually arrive by email. This has been a very good year - especially for the hackers. Ben Rothke wonders if we have learned anything from the experience