FBI warn about Valentine's Day virus


Posted by absorbation on Thu 14 Feb 2008 (11:44 GMT) (1574 views)
Valentine's Day is a big day for virus creators. They pray on e-mails containing e-cards, links to website about love and of course by tempting people do discover a 'secret admirer' by downloading a infected program.

The FBI have even warned about a virus going around, and have issued a press statement about the Storm Worm. It says:

If you unexpectedly receive a Valentine's Day e-card, be careful. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus.



The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays in the last year by sending millions of e-mails advertising an e-card link within the text of the spam e-mail. Valentine's Day has been identified as the next target.



Just remember; be careful, don't click on any suspicious links contacts send you within Messenger and don't accept file downloads unless you know what they are.

Source: mess.be
View the press release by the FBI

Tags:   Valentines day  Virus  Security    

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