UK police had arrested a couple who are suspected of helping to spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses here in Manchester.

A man and a woman both in their 20s were arrested on November 3rd on suspicion of spreading Trojan Horse programs known as "Zbot" or "ZeuS."

Police said the viruses are thought to have infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide, and one technology consultant described them as the "most notorious pieces of malware of recent times."

Zbot family of viruses is known of stealing personal information from computers across the world and feeding it back to cyber criminals. The viruses are commonly known as Trojan Horses or Trojans because they sneak onto computers and attack them from the inside, harvesting millions of lines of data - including banking information, credit card numbers and social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Friendster) passwords.

The viruses spread by sending e-mails or other messages from infected computers, impersonating banks, tax officials, credit card companies or even friends and enticing potential victims to click on a link that downloads the Trojan.

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