A New Storm Brewing

The malicious worm generators have moved on to what F-Secure is calling "Stormy Love". I guess that is to be expected with Valentines Day a few weeks away. In fact, I would expect this type of enticement to pick up as the date gets closer to February 14 when everyone's heartstrings are easy pickings. As it is, the folks at F-Secure noticed that the list of subjects if very similar to the list of romantic cards at 2000greetings.com.

With all of these references to storms, I am hopeful that they don't pick on an old-time favorite, Stormy Weekend by the Mystic Moods Orchestra, pictured here. I believe we still have the old vinyl around somewhere.

The list that F-Secure has compiled so far is quite long and, as I suggested above, will probably grow over the next few weeks. This is what F-Secure has turned up to date:

A Bouguet of Love A Day in Bed Coupon A Monkey Rose for You A Red Hot Kiss Against All Odds All That Matters Baby, I'll Be There Back Together Breakfast in Bed Coupon Can't Wait to See You! Cyber Love Dinner Coupon Dream Date Coupon Emptiness Inside Me Fields Of Love For You Full Heart I Believe I Can't Function I Dream of You I Think of You Internet Love It's Your Move

Kiss Coupon Love Birds Love You Deeply Made for Each Other Miracle of Love Moonlit Waterfall My Invitation Our Love Our Love is Free Our Two Hearts Passionate Kiss Pockets of Love Puppy Love Red Rose Sending You My Love Showers of Love Someone at Last Soul Partners Summer Love Take My Hand That Special Love The Dance of Love The Long Haul

The Love Bugs This Day Forward This Feeling Till Morning's Light Till Morninig's Light The Mood for Love To New Spouse Together Again Together You and I Touched by Love Twice Blest Until the Day We're a Perfect Fit Wild Nights Will you? When I'm With You Worthy of You Wrapped Up Wrapped in Your Arms You are our of this world You Lucky Duck! You Rock Me! You Were Worth the Wait

The attachment names are not unexpected:

• Greeting Postcard.exe
• postcard.exe
• greeting card.exe
• Flash Postcard.exe
• flash postcard.exe

The advice to follow is not new but is repeated once again. Just imagine an old vinyl copy of Stormy Weekend stuck and repeating . . . if your email spam filters don't pick it up, you can avoid infection by blocking executables in your email client. If you use webmail, do not click the attachment.