14 DAY TRIAL // Boy, is this a persistent threat! I never had anything to do with it, but it still annoys me! This virus has been plaguing users for three months now! Do these hackers know no shame? I mean they use every possible reason to send spam. Jesus! Now they're using Labor Day as an excuse to send electronic greeting cards. Of course, just clicking on those cards will get you to a malware infected site.
I'm going to explain how this works very briefly in case any of you is new to Storm (though I doubt it). You get an e-mail with a certain card, or a link to some video or who knows what hoax message. The e-mail itself does not contain any viruses, but if you click on the link inside it, it will take you to a website that will infect you with Storm. After getting infected, your PC will spam like crazy, sending others the similar messages to the one you got.
I think that this Storm virus has become so popular that it is getting harder and harder for them to infect people, that's why they've resorted to the crappiest excuses to send spam. To be honest, I'm sick of it and with spam generally. I think that there should be a huge non-Internet based campaign to inform people about phishing, spam, viruses, PC security and such, in every country. If people were more educated regarding technology, hackers would really have a hard time!
If you put something like that on the web, no one is going to read it, but if you inform people directly, in real life, they are bound to take things more seriously. Have you noticed that PDF spam has gone down because it was inefficient? Well, if people knew more about spam generally, they would no longer click on links and all spam-scam methods would become useless!