Viruses promise heartbreak on Valentine’s Day

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Beware of e-mails bearing Valentine’s Day greetings, or you may get a digital heartache.

At least two romance-themed security threats are arriving in e-mail in-boxes on Wednesday, researchers have warned. One purports to be an electronic card from American Greetings and includes “Happy Valentine’s Day!” in the subject line. When a recipient clicks on an in-message link to view the “card,” however, a Trojan horse virus surreptitiously turns the computer into a spambot, or zombie, said Dmitri Alperovitch, a research scientist at Secure Computing.

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