PARIS (Reuters) - The world's main industrialized countries called for faster, more innovative responses to cybercrime on Wednesday after consulting high-tech industries about viruses, hacker attacks and Internet fraud.

The Group of Eight (G8) countries found no quick fix for ''Love Bug''-type attacks but stressed they wanted to crack down on digital crime rapidly spreading across the globe, but without stifling the growth of electronic commerce.

Industry representatives said the three-day meeting, the first international session on public and private sector responses to cybercrime, highlighted the need to bring the lightning speed of the Internet to traditional cross-border police work.

The session drew up talking points for the July summit in Okinawa of the G8 -- the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia -- but did not propose a global ``cyberpolice'' or other new crime-fighting agencies.

``International cooperation within and beyond the G8 is indispensable to combat effectively high-tech crime,'' the final communique said. ``There must be no safe havens for those who abuse information technologies.''

Sessions Highlighted Digital Gap
The encounter between high-tech industry types and government officials, some of whom did not even have e-mail addresses on their business cards, highlighted the gap between two groups concerned about cybercrime.

Industry representatives said the session mainly helped them learn what law enforcement officials needed and explain their concerns to government officials unfamiliar with new technology. ''We moved from the discussion only of traditional crime committed through the new technology, whether that would be money laundering or drugs or pornography and pedophilia, to beginning to realize hacking and viruses are very serious criminal issues,'' said Gaylen Duncan of the Information Technology Association of Canada.

The G8 statement said further government-industry work in fighting cybercrime had to improve existing law enforcement procedures while taking into account issues such as privacy.

It supported ``effective industry-initiated voluntary codes of conduct and standards'' without specifying where or how high-tech firms should do this.

U.S.Pours Cold Water On Cyberpolice
The statement did not indicate how this new public-private approach to cybercrime would continue, but a French diplomat said Paris would pursue the issue within the G8, the European Union and at the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe.

The 41-member Council of Europe is currently drafting a convention on cybercrime that would create minimum legal standards and practices among signatory states and require them to collect information on hackers and extradite suspects.

France strongly backs the draft, Britain supports it with less vigor and the United States -- which with fellow non-members Canada, Japan and South Africa is helping draft the Council document -- says it is too early to say if this is the way to go.

The high-tech industry is wary about a treaty written by bureaucrats that could add extra costs to their operations.

U.S. Assistant Attorney General James Robinson poured cold water on talk by French officials that Washington wanted a global ``cyberpolice'' that could be a threat to civil liberties.