your computer will not love this

Your computer will not love this Valentine

The Storm Worm, which turns systems into spam spewing zombies without

their owner's knowledge is taking a predicted twist and using

Valentine's Day as a lure.

Websense is reporting:

Websense� Security Labs(TM) has received reports and confirmed that

the Storm worm has once again switched lure tactics. The worm has

now adopted a Valentine's Day twist in its attempts to infect users

with malicious code. For more details on how we protect against

Storm attacks, see

http://www.websense.com/securitylabs/blog/blog.php?BlogID=141.

Websense (full) alert with screenshots, here.

Most recently, we've seen the Storm Botnet leased by the phishermen to

steal people's personal and financial details.

CNet (Robert Vamosi) did a good write-up on this latest Storm

phenomenon, here.

The best way to protect your computer from this (besides having good

security software) is to simply "just say delete" to any unsolicited

Valentines you receive!

Previous posts I've written about the Storm Worm can be seen, here.

Posted by Ed Dickson at 9:54 PM