February 13, 2008 (Computerworld) The Valentine’s Day campaign that the bot-building Storm Trojan horse has been running for weeks is running at such volume that even the FBI issued a warning yesterday.

“With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software,” the FBI said in an alert posted to the home page of its Web site yesterday. “The Storm Worm virus has capitalized on various holidays in the last year by sending millions of e-mails advertising an e-card link within the text of the spam e-mail. Valentine’s Day has been identified as the next target.”

Actually, the FBI was way behind the ball. For several weeks, security vendors have been predicting that Storm would again use tomorrow’s big day to dupe users into opening attachments or clicking links.

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My system started malfunctioning again 3 or 4 days ago and what I discovered was my folder packed up with Desktop_.ini. Even after reinstalling a fresh copy of windows after uninstalling the old one even formatting my windows drive didn’t solve the issue. I am still trying to solve the issue and can’t do. Here seems to be a good discussion about Desktop_.ini issue.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070226081955AAM4nav

This file i.e Desktop_.ini copies itself to every folder accessed. I am McAfee 10 Enterprise Edition but this virus, I believe has even cleaned up some registry values and I can’t even start Active Shield and My Firewall is also disabled. Tough Virus Ah!

Just finsihed backing up my data on my 4 years old windows installtion, so I can install a new Windows and resest my old settings for my favorites softwares and Programming tools!

I was too lazy to fresh my windows installation thats too old (almost 4 years) by now. So I started backing up my data and important software settings in the mornign and after six (6) hours  of tiring procedure, I am ready to install a fresh copy of windows after formatting this partition of my windows Installtion.

So here is an article I wrote for you so you can remember what you should back-up before installing  a new fresh copy of Window. I am a bit Windows XP centric during the discussion but it always works for other flavours of Windows too.

So cutting short here is the Great Article . Yeah I know I am boasting !

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