Christmas and New Years Greetings From the Storm Worm

I've mentioned the Storm Worm before, a malicious trojan horse program, and it's creative subject lines to get you to click on the link in that email. Now Stormy is taking a Christmas (and now New Year's) greetings approach to infect more unwary PCs. Recipients of emails will get a link to the MerryChristmasDude website which is evidently registered to Russian hackers.
Subject lines from these emails have said

• I love this Carol!
• Warm Up this Christmas
• The Twelve Girls Of Christmas
• Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
• The Perfect Christmas
• Santa Said, HO HO HO
• Find Some Christmas Tail

and so on. As of today the emails and website they link to have been updated with New Year's messages and want you to download a supposed greeting card called 'happycards2008' but you won't be too happy after you download this malware.
Please, people, show some common sense and stop clicking on links from random emails and using these idiotic greeting card sites which do nothing more than harvest email addresses to send us more spam.

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