Virus makers prepare for Saint Valentine's Day

Malcontent · Jan 28, 2009

http://news.drweb.com/show/?i=217&c=5

January 28, 2009

Doctor Web notifies all users about a mass mailing of messages exploiting the forthcoming St. Valentine’s Day. The message contains a link to a web-site where a user is lured inito downloading of a malicious program detected by Dr.Web as Trojan.Spambot.4266 also known as Waledac.
When the user gets to the web-site, he is prompted to click on one of nice Valentine hearts and initiate downloading of the Trojan.

The aim of the virus makers is creation of another botnet. The Trojan file downloaded from the bogus web-site is updated regularly. However, new modifications of the Trojan are added to the Dr.Web virus database promptly.
As the St. Valentine Day draws closer, Doctor Web recommends all users to be careful and make sure that you know origins of a Valentine greeting you receive.
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dawgg · Jan 29, 2009

Similar thing always happens during big days/events, nothing new there. - AVs do this every time.

elapsed · Jan 29, 2009

These websites have been live since Christmas, just so you know. It's always a picture of lots of hearts with different variants and different URL's.

emperordarius · Jan 30, 2009

I hope they don't make it this lame :

TechOutsider · Jan 30, 2009

My birthday is on Valentines Day. What a way to ruin my day ... cleaning an infected PC.

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