The Valentine's Day Massacre...

I hope that you are all having a safe and pleasant; if not wonderful Valentines Day today, and that you haven't opened any attachments that you shouldn't have?

You did read my entry yesterday didn't you? Well, here's a link, so you can now, if you haven't already.

As 'sort-of-predicted' yesterday, the 'Bad Guys[TM]' just couldn't resist in getting you to infect your computer, all because of your addiction to that four-letter-word; yes I mean 'L-O-V-E'.

It seems that the so-called 'Storm Worm Gang' couldn't resist the opportunity to try and get you to infect your computer either, and so they started a new wave of modified malware seeding late last night:

The subjects of the e-mails I've seen so far include:

Cuddle Up
Fly Away Valentine
For My Valentine
I Can't Function
In My Heart
My Valentine Heart
My Valentine Sunshine
Send Love On Valentine
The Candle's Light
The Miracle of Love
The Valentine Love Bug
Valentine's Love
Valentine Letter
Valentine Love Song
Valentine Sweetie
Valentines Day Dance
Valentines Night
You Are My Guiding Star
You+Me

The body of all the e-mails seen so far, is empty.

The attachments to the e-mails I've seen so far include:

Flash Postcard.exe
Greeting Card.exe
Greeting Postcard.exe
Postcard.exe

There is also at least one other new 'Valentine' related malware out there, this being a PowerPoint presentation. More details can be found here: Trojan.PPDropper.G [Symantec]

However you spend the day, whatever you do for the 'love-of-your-life', don't become part of the collateral damage of the 'The Valentine's Day [Malware] Massacre'.

If I see anymore 'bogus' Valentine's Day e-mails, I'll try and post details here when I can. Also, if you see any that I haven't yet posted about, then please ket me know.

Hopefully, between us we can try and keep the annual massacre down to a mere scuffle! ;-)