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

    Deborah, Glad you pointed

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

    TechJaws and Free PC Security have more info

    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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    • Lovinmalamutes on Sun 01 Feb 2009
    • 11:51:08 AM UTC

    Valentine's Day attack underway

    Why do people do such things? Thank You for the warning. "Forewarned is Forearmed" http://www1.kiwee.com/platform/tb/swfplayer.pd?prodnum=31365...

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    • Anonymous on Fri 06 Feb 2009
    • 08:01:44 AM UTC

    Valentines Day attack

    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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    • bron45 on Fri 06 Feb 2009
    • 03:58:06 PM UTC

    thanks for the information

    thanks for the information
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    • HekateIsis on Sat 07 Feb 2009
    • 06:19:50 PM UTC

    Thanks

    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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    • lizzybeth on Tue 10 Feb 2009
    • 09:39:37 PM UTC

    Val Day Attack

    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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    • EAGLEXPRESS88 on Wed 11 Feb 2009
    • 06:37:15 PM UTC

    valentine attack

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