Valentine's Day virus massacre
Source: Vnunet
With Valentine's Day almost upon us, computer users are being warned about the dangers of recurring socially engineered viruses.
Some of the most successful viruses over the last couple of years have used the promise of love to get users to set off the damaging electronic payload.
According to research firm Computer Economics, the 'I Love You' virus caused more than £6bn worth of damage to computer systems worldwide. Its wide dissemination through the internet was helped by the ingenuity of the email in which it was included.
Now a similar threat comes from the 'Valentin' virus, which sends messages to mobile phone users wishing them a happy Valentine's Day and directing them to a website.
On visiting the site, a file called 'loveday14-b.hta' downloads itself to a user's computer and creates another file containing malicious code in the Windows system folder.
