Love worms or special worm with malicious code are expected to be returned each time the emergence of Valentines days in month of February. This worm is spread to steal users personal data but there is also the spread of this spam just to disturb the victim by fill in the inbox with junk email.
During Valentines day, this malicious email will be spread in large-scale where it attached to the email link of a specific website to attract victims view the electronic card (e-card) that was sent to them. This card is in fact infected with Malware and will be installed as soon as the victim click on the image, link or certain object in the website.
In 2010,10 million computer users have been infected by Storm Worm and Spam emails. Cyber criminals are planting some program code to obtain information such as contact partner, IP address and others. It can be obtained from victim's computer or extracted from other sources such as social networking site that contains data in it.
Below is email subject which used as a bait to prey open
A Dream Is A Wish,
A Is For Attitude,
A Kiss So Gentle,
A Rose,
A Rose For My Love,
Eternity Of Your Love,
Inside My Heart,
HOW TO CONTROL / AVOID?
- Install security software that can filter out spam and emails that may be infected by malicious code.
- Do not open emails that are sent by individuals whose names you never know.
- Discard emails with the suspicious title or contain short messages and links that were only wield IP address.
- Avoid opening email containing a link ".exe" or "greeting card .exe" because it is believed to contain malicious programs.
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