New Delhi: Though lovey-dovey e-mails from that special one on Valentine's Day are difficult to ignore, there could be a danger lurking behind the oh-so-sweet sounding subject line.
Just like the cupid-struck lovers, hackers have also decided to have a field day on this Valentine's Day.
There are at least three viruses doing the rounds of the virtual world, waiting for that one wrong click to make dangerous headways into your PCs.
Experts have warned computer users to guard against deadly viruses that could hit their machines on February 14.
One virus, known as Vbs_Valentin.A is likely to break out on Tuesday and will spread chiefly through e-mails or on-line chat systems, according to China National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre.
Other Valentine viruses which are likely to infect computers are Worm-blebla.B and VBS-ILoveyou.
The centre cautioned users of being wary of unidentified e-mails, update anti-virus software and use the real-time computer virus monitoring function whenever surfing the Internet, Xinhua news agency reported.
Among other viruses to break out this week are "W97M-Concept.F", which will break out next Thursday. When users running Word documents, an infected computer will show a dialog box of "-Parasite Virus 1.0X Your computer is infected
with the Parasite Virus, version 1.0."
The virus will substitute"." with ",", "and" with "not" and "a" with "e" in the computer's Word documents, experts said.
Antidote for anti-love virus
To avoid the deadly onslaught, do not click on links or attachments unless they are part of an expected e-mail or instant message from a reliable, known source.
Protect your computer with current anti-virus software and manufacturer-recommended system patches.
Check the authenticity of a questionable message by contacting the sender via telephone or another messaging technique.
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