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The FBI is warning of a new twist in the saga of scam emails that suggest a "hitman" is on the trail of the recipients.

Spam levels suddenly dropped 30 per cent last week, according to managed security firm SoftScan, which attributes the let-up to a "broken" botnet.

Security vendors are talking up the potential for attacks on IP telephony systems, reckoned to be the next major market for security defences.

Is your computer part of a ‘botnet’, or one of tens or even hundreds of thousands of compromised computers, under the control of one of the ‘bad guys’ using your computer to commit Internet fraud and other crimes?