Cyber crimes have evolved from hackers fighting against the views of government to sophisticated identity theft, breaking into banks and various criminal activities. So far, local police organizations have been losing a lot of time to recover data from such machines, and they need all the help they can get. Now Microsoft is joining the fight.

It is a rare thing when an anti-virus company raises an alert about a widespread trojan virus. However, that is exactly the case with the new trojan named Downloader-UA.h, with a million infections stopped by McAffee alone. This trojan is spreading through file-sharing networks, so caution is advised.

Several hundred to possibly a thousand laptops are missing from the United States State Department, according to an internal audit. Many of the laptops likely contain classified information and as many as 400 computers belonged to the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program which provides counterterrorism training to other nations.