Love makes the Web often blind

Proverbial blind love is often on the Internet. Because on news of alleged secret admirers, many users fall occasion of Valentine's Day (February 14) start. Behind the messages often put online criminals and spammers who want to entice unsuspecting users into divulging personal user data.


Here, the messages are no longer sent only by e-mail, as has previously been the case. With the help of targeted, emotionally appealing wall posts on Facebook or other social networks are the Cyber-criminals sent to the user. The experts now warn of the IT security firm BitDefender. It is advisable to meet the online communications with suspicion and caution, and to protect their computer with security tools from possible attacks by malicious software.