Thursday, February 14, 2008

Spam and Love Notes

As Valentines day draws ever closer the flood of e-mail's designed to trick you (Classic Social Engineering) into clicking on a link that will infect and take over your computer start coming fast and furious.

Here is a write-up on the latest variation of the Spam Worm (should we change it's name to the Love Worm? that uses such subject lines as:

"Valentines Day"
"Sweetest things Aren't things!"

and my personal favorite ...

"The Love Train"

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3979

The Storm worm continues to be a menace to all of us who spend any time on the Internet so practice safe surfing habits.

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