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Valentine's Day attack underway

Wed 28 Jan 2009 12:00:00 PM UTC — Deborah S.

In the run up to the day that celebrates romance and friendship, the makers of last year's bot Trojan Storm, are busy spreading their version of love. Seems that they want people to "Be My Valentine" more than ever this year.

Valentine spamSecurity companies have issued warnings to avoid new spam messages with subject lines such as “Falling in love with you”, “I belong to you”, and “I love being in love with you.” Once the link in the email is clicked the user is brought to a site that has an image of 12 hearts and has the bold text "Guess, which one is for you?" If you click anywhere on the picture, you give yourself the unromantic gift of malware.

I'd rather have roses or chocolate, wouldn't you?

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Deborah, Glad you pointed

Wed 28 Jan 2009 12:02:11 PM UTC — Frank J

Deborah,

Glad you pointed this out as I just blogged about it this morning. You can read more below.

http://www.techjaws.com/valentine%E2%80%99s-day-sp...

Frank J
www.techjaws.com

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TechJaws and Free PC Security have more info

Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:27:54 PM UTC — Deborah S.

Thanks Frank! TechJaws is on top of every breaking story.

Also, our friend Colin at Free PC Security has more about the Valentine's Day attack.

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Valentine's Day attack underway

Sun 01 Feb 2009 11:51:08 AM UTC — Lovinmalamutes

Why do people do such things? Thank You for the warning. "Forewarned is Forearmed" http://www1.kiwee.com/platform/tb/swfplayer.pd?prodnum=3136573&personalization=

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Valentines Day attack

Fri 06 Feb 2009 08:01:44 AM UTC — lesley (not verified)

Thank you for the warning - I have only just downloaded WOT for my Firefox browser and I hopefully can now feel a little safer while I am browsing and receiving emails.

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thanks for the information

Fri 06 Feb 2009 03:58:06 PM UTC — bron45

thanks for the information

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Thanks

Sat 07 Feb 2009 06:19:50 PM UTC — HekateIsis

Thank you for the warning. I'm new to the site and find it very educational so far. I appreciate blogs like this one.

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Val Day Attack

Tue 10 Feb 2009 09:39:37 PM UTC — lizzybeth

Thanks for the warning, I prob wud of went ahead an clicked something like that!! Whoever creates stuff like that has nothing better 2 do!

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valentine attack

Wed 11 Feb 2009 06:37:15 PM UTC — EAGLEXPRESS88

DO NOT OPEN mail from strangers.......didnt your momma tell you about strangers!?

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