St. Valentine’s Day congratulations spam

Websense Security Labs experts have detected mass dispatches of messages in which malefactors suggest users to visit a certain web site and to see a card with congratulations by a St. Valentine’s Day. If the user agrees to pass the link, the image of two puppies and heart will be shown. After that the potential victim is recommended to download a certain file and to prepare a gift to a sweetheart. Actually the file appears malware program Waledac: having got on the computer, the worm collects e-mail addresses and dispatches on them the copies.

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