A French restaurant-owner has bought the world’s most expensive white wine – for £75,000 (NZ$141,000).

Cyber criminals are taking control of people’s computers and forcing them to buy compromised malware in order to regain control of their machines, online security specialists AVG says.

The biggest challenge facing anti-virus and anti-spyware providers is making people aware of the constant dangers online. Most users don’t realise when they have entered a bad site and don’t realise they have a virus until its too late.