FBI Valentine E-Card Alert
By admin • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Email Scams, Identity Theft, Identity Theft Protection, LifeLock, Phishing, SpywareA warning for all internet and email users!
It’s almost Valentine’s Day once again but before opening up that E-Valentine’s Card, you may want to think again. It may not be coming from cupid but instead from someone ready to spread the so called Storm Worm virus.
The Storm Worm virus have used the various holidays in the previous year to send out millions of emails and electronic cards such as Valentine’s E-Cards. It is a malicious software (malware) and it does infect computer machines and made it become a part of of the Storm Worm botnet. A botnet is a network of compromised machines but under the control of a single user. Botnets are known to be to be set up to facilitate criminal activity such as phishing, spam emails, identity theft and other servcice attacks to spread malware to other computers online. When a user clicks on the email link, he automatically downloaded the malware and his computer system is infected.
It is very important to be extra careful in opening up any e-card emails. Make sure that you know the sender before opening e-cards. Do not open any unsolicited e-mail and if you accidentally opened them, never click on any links provided.
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i never thought that a thing like valentine e-cards can be one source of a certain virus. i am a constant email user and is very fond and curious of opening mails that are from senders whom i don’t know. maybe out of curiosity, i often do that. this post is helpful for those pips like me who are not careful enough in opening unsolicited mails. the next time i’ll be receiving mails from unknown senders, i’ll be extra prudent. well, this serves as a warning and so the best thing to do is, if we have suspicious emails coming from suspicious senders, better mark it as spam.