Loved Ones

Tonight I am promised a nice meal, a bottle of champagne and the company of my “significant other”. Much as I enjoy the research and writing that goes into the reviews in the short life of this blog, more worldly pleasures are dragging me away from the keyboard and screen!

So just a couple of quick notes for this post as I am sure that you will all have better things to do as well.

Worms

The major malware/anti-virus sites are reporting a major onslaught of the worm Dref-AB in preparation for the unsuspecting on Valentine’s Day. this worm is spread by email and subject lines include:

• A Valentine Love Song
• Fly Away Valentine
• My Lucky Valentine
• For My Valentine
• Happy Valentine’s Day
• Be My Valentine
• My Valentine

The attachment containing the worm include the following titles:

• greeting postcard.exe
• flash postcard.exe
• postcard.exe.
• greeting card.exe

BUT This is not an exclusive list of email subjects or attachment executable names.

So treat everything you receive from unknown sources with the usual degree of caution and sceptism. Make sure you have a viris scanner installed, there are plenty of free ones (personally I use AVG Free Edition from Grisoft), that the definitions are up todate and that it is set to scan your email and downloads.

It is believed that the worm code is written to download more malicious code over the Internet which will  take over the PC in order to use it as part convert  of a zombie network. It could then be used to send spam or for DOS attacks.

Fun

I came across the following freeware programs with a Valentine’s Day theme. I haven’t tried them but they are listed on reputable download sites. Same caution as always use an anti-virus program and scan the downloads. Google for the download site or visit your favorite and search there.

Valentine’s Hearts Animated Screenmate

Let your house be full of warmth and coziness during these holidays!

Valentine’s Hearts is a holiday Screen Mate by EleFun Multimedia devoted to St. Valentine’s Day. From year to year people in many countries celebrate the day of all beloved — St. Valentine’s Day.
On this wonderful holiday it is a common practice to present greeting-cards in the form of hearts and to make an avowal of sentiments. Screen Mate Valentine’s Hearts is almost a greeting-card but it is much more interesting and unique. Just imagine a bright and beautiful heart on the desktop of your computer! A present like this can never be forgotten!
To present Valentine’s Hearts Screen Mate to your friend, you may use send from Valentine’s Hearts settings by Send To Friend button or copy URL of this page and send it.

Saturn-7 Valentine

Freeware Valentine’s heart like screenmate that allow to write any text on it. Had some function to slow down or faster slide speed. Egg inside.

Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

System Requirements: There is no specific requirements

Language: English

Have fun and enjoy your day!

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