China's anti-virus authorities on Sunday warned computer users
to guard against Valentine's Day computer viruses.
Valentine's Day computer viruses, especially "Vbs_Valentin.A",
spread chiefly through e-mails or online chat systems, such as MSN
and QQ, warned experts from Tianjin-based China National Computer
Virus Emergency Response Center.
Other viruses like "Worm-blebla.B" and "VBS-ILoveyou" will also
assault PC computers if users open e-mails or attachments disguised
with Valentine blessings for February 14.
The computer virus center warns users to be wary of unidentified
e-mails, especially those attached with Spanish characters.
It also alerted Internet shoppers to heed clicks on bogus
discount messages from online stores, which may be used to spread
viruses.
Experts suggested computer users should update their anti-virus
software and use the real-time computer virus monitoring function
whenever surfing the Internet.
(Xinhua News Agency February 10, 2008)