Besides purple roses and strawberry chocolate, this year’s Valentines Day also brought  Pink Malware in the form of  Nurech worm. Sandra, Willa, Wendy, or Vicky are not your new best friends, instead they are spoofed sender email addresses  to trick you  guys opening the emails. Cute, but we’re smarter, right? Find out how .

MicroWorld Technologies launched a new version of the FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE - MWAV, compatible with Windows Vista. Its simplicity in use, high scanning speed and comprehensive protection, have all made it quite a rage among many home and office users"

Significant number of TomTom GO 910 SatNav devices are infected with a virus, the manufacturer admits. A certain number of TomTom GO 910’s, produced between September and November 2006, may be infected with a virus. The virus is considered as low risk and can be cleaned safely with antivirus scanning software. Suitable actions have been taken to make sure this is prevented from happening again in the future.

Sunbelt Software, an important provider of Windows security software, today released the top ten most prevalent spyware threats for the month of December 2006. The results are based on monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's award-winning antispyware product CounterSpy™. The WinAntiVirusPro threat shows up for the first time in the top ten lists and is a rogue antispyware program that purports to scan and detect malware or other problems on the computer.

Once again, Panda Software has released its annual list of those nasty codes. Gladly there were no Code Reds in the group. None of them were brutal enough to have caused any serious epidemics. But without further excitement, here are this year's 'winners':

Two flaw hunters, Kevin Finisterre and the pseudonymous LMH, say that each day in January, they will feature a security hole in Apple Computer's Mac OS X or applications for that operating system. Like previous efforts, which concerned Web browser and kernel flaws, the "Month of Apple Bugs" is meant to improve security, the two state on their Web site. Flaws that are publicly disclosed will get fixed quickly, they argue.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in various Sophos Anti-Virus products, which could be exploited by attackers or malware to take complete control of an affected computer or cause a denial of service.

CA has declared that it is providing virus and spyware protection for corporate customers and consumers using the new Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.

CA Threat Manager, CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware for Windows Vista have been in beta testing release since June. They are also being used by Microsoft in its own enterprise environment to help safeguard Windows Vista resources.

As malware is more and more written with a specific goal in mind, antivirus firms are deploying more intelligent recognition tools and creating unique signatures for individual clients.

IBM declared it has joined with BitDefender to include that company's antivirus and antispyware technologies into its Internet Security Systems division's endpoint security products.