Security Heads up! Valentine's Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected

February 13, IDG News Service – (National) Valentine’s Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected.

A Valentine’s-themed outbreak of the Storm worm has been detected. Malicious e-mails are being received across the globe – they contain a Web link, which directs users to a Web site where they can supposedly download a Valentine’s card, but in fact are infected with the Storm bug. The virus mirrors the fake Christmas and New Year messages seen in previous months.
According to a security analyst at McAfee, the virus will try to steal personal information from your PC, bring down its security defenses, and use your PC to send out millions of junk e-mails. “There are about ten million PCs worldwide infected with the Storm worm. These threats have suddenly spiked from zero percent of all spam e-mails to 1.5 percent, and they are continuing to rise as we draw closer to Valentine’s Day, and more people are fooled into downloading the malicious file,” he commented.

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Re: Security Heads up! Valentine's Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected

Thanks for info.. thank goodness i dont open any of that stuff.

Re: Security Heads up! Valentine's Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected

wait what exactly happens. i havent been at work and i checked my email from home right now i didnt open anything but there was a bunch of emails saying undeliverable or something in my inbox and they kinda looked vday themed.

Re: Security Heads up! Valentine's Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected

thanks for the heads up!