New Delhi, Feb. 14 :     Within a week of the hacker siege on the world's biggest electronic commerce websites, India's computer confederation has decided to put in place a national cybercop council to keep vandals at bay. The committee, to be set up by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), will have 11 members. It will be a permanent body with experts drawn from the government, the industry, the police and the software industry. 'This body has to be permanent. Since the hackers will keep evolving new methods, we need these experts to keep updating the methods adopted by them and the precautions needed for that,' said Nasscom president Devang Mehta. Last week's hacker ambush on popular sites like Yahoo! did not set off chain-reaction attacks in India, but over 120 websites in the country were hacked during the Kargil war. Most of the sites were infiltrated by Pakistani hackers to propagate the cause of 'independent' Kashmir. Dewang said no foolproof system or anti-hacking software is available in the world. However, a few Indian companies have developed software which can check virus sent through the Internet. 'We can set a benchmark in developing anti-hacking software. We have shown our expertise in developing the software to solve the Y2K problem. This is a new challenge with opportunity for the Indian software industry,' Mehta said. 'It is important since we expect the electronic commerce transaction in India to be one o the largest in the world,' he added. Nasscom has also warned consumers against accepting free software with computers. 'Free software allows hackers to reach your computer without much effort. It could contain small software, which responds to the commands sent by the hacker,' he said. This is known as 'Trojal attack'. The Yahoo! hackers had used 'Smurf attack' in which a mountain of junk mail will smother the server. 'The creation of a cybercop committee is a very important step and should not be delayed,' a government official said.