Good Wishes now comes with a E-Card Virus

Now a days ,a new form of false e-card notification e-mails are unleashing nasty viruses and virus-carrying Trojan horses on unsuspecting users.
While e-card-triggered viruses and Trojan horses are not new, the latest versions are becoming more difficult for typical antivirus and antispam defenses to detect. The complexity is that the latest batch of fake e-card e-mail notifications are using plain text in their messages, which don't get scanned and scrutinized by antivirus and antispam defense applications. While the e-mails don't contain pasted links or attached files that a recipient can click on to get a computer infection, many e-mail clients automatically convert the included text into a clickable link when the e-mail clients recognize a Web address in the text.
All recipients have to do to trigger the virus is to click on the link created by the e-mail client once they have read the message.Also the culprits sending these e-mails are using the names of some of the most popular electronic greeting card companies in their messages and Web links.
According to the sources,the links to the fake e-greeting cards lead to IP addresses in various locations, including the U.S. and Eastern Europe, and many are registered to U.S. Internet service providers. The damaging payload files are new variants of the Storm Worm virus that was first detected in January.
For antivirus and antispam sellers, the theory had been that if the message includes plain text without links and attachments, it could cause no harm, he said. That approach has to change. User need to be cautious and not click on links they find in e-mails. Instead, they should go directly to a Web site by typing its address into a Web browser and go there on their own, bypassing links that could be malicious.
According to the sources, latest e-greeting attacks are an example that criminals are going to be coming up with more and more ingenious ways of tricking people or exploiting ways of tricking your e-mail client. This is just one of any number of ways that these guys are going to try to lure users to do something they shouldn't.