[pchelpers] News:Valentine's Day-themed Storm worm attacks detected

Malicious e-mails infected with the Storm bug try to steal personal
information from users' PCs

By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor
February 13, 2008

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 Greg Day, 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.

More here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/13/Valentine-Day-Storm-worm-attacks-detected_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/13/Valentine-Day-Storm-worm-attacks-detected_1.html
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