If you click on the link, the Web site displays a message saying it is too busy, which may not surprise people who think it might contain genuine breaking news about Michael Jackson.

If you click on the link, the website displays a message saying it is too busy, which may not surprise people who think it might contain genuine breaking news about Michael Jackson.

If you don't have antivirus, get some. If you have some, ensure it's up to date and clean up your computer.

Smaller, targeted attacks are on the increase, with the emergence of a new breed of financially-motivated online criminal. The concern is that if users continue to combine unsafe computing practices with outdated threat protection, they'll be a soft target for this new form of attack,

It's important to remember that as older threats are vanquished, others will undoubtedly take their place. Mass-mailing worms may be in decline, but it's highly unlikely that they will disappear entirely - the introduction of a major new operating system may even spark a new wave of threats, as virus writers try to find holes in the product.

That may not surprise people who think it might contain genuine breaking news about Michael Jackson.

This is the second massive e-mail attack from this hacker in two days, the creator is obviously intent on infecting as many people as possible.

This is not the first time we have seen immoral opportunists take advantage of a natural disaster to fill their pockets with money meant for victims.

A new chain letter has entered the charts claiming that the MSN will be closed down unless the bogus email is forwarded to family, friends and colleagues. As always, these chain letters are best deleted as they waste bandwidth.

There's loads of it about at the moment. The volume of spam is ramping up as the day progresses.