Virus warning for Valentijnsdagmail
Virus writers make often skilful use of the 'weaknesses' of internet users. The 'I Praise You' virus was not for nothing one of the most successful computer viruses ever.
Talloze internal pus kicked in 2000 in the fall and clicked the per e-mail sent appendix with the name 'I Praise You' on. The consequence was that mailservers about the whole world succumbed under the messages that the loves virus from genfecteerde computers sent.
Sophos guesses internal pus then also at reserved to be with the opening of appendixes and the downloading of programs. “in love computer users that e-cards open, can once in a while till the discovery come that they through more have been hit then through the arrows of Cupido only”, stilt the virus opponent in a warning.
“As someone you a Valentijnsgroet per e-card steers, is he or they in the best case an onromantische vrek. In the onlyest case he or they steer you a virus. In both cases, you can him or her best let fall”, according to Graham Cluley of Sophos.
“We argue the old-fashioned solution: flowers, chocolate or a romantic dinner for two. That is much more tempting and prevents moreover the chance on contagion.”
It is not for the first time that Sophos warns: last year place the virus opponent around this time in such a way a warning against 'loves viruses' on its site.