At least 100,000 PC in the U.K. are infected with the Zeus malware, a superior piece of spying application that is frequently beating the majority of antivirus application suites, according security vendor Trusteer.

Researchers at Trusteer administered to investigate a server used to gather information from the hacked PCs, which possible become infected by surfing Web sites engineered to assault PC install with Zeus, said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO. What they establish was surprising. Zeus is intended to monitor PC and gather information, but the operators of this group of infected PC have taken data collection to a higher level.

For these hacked systems, Zeus was working on all traffic send through a browser, as well as that send out using SSL, a technique utilize to encrypt susceptible data among twoends. Boodaei said Zeus gather information previous to it has been encrypted or just after it has been decrypted.