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Even computer users who manage to avoid the Valentine's Day viruses being emailed around the web are likely to be caught out by the "bad guys" eventually, a US reporter has warned.
Ben Worthen, writing for the Wall Street Journal, highlighted information released by the BBC which revealed there was a large increase in the amount of malware being spread around the internet during 2007.
"Some estimates place the total at more than five times the amount in 2006 and one tech security company says it saw 3,000 unique pieces of malicious code a day," he explained.
The Valentine's Day virus threat could mean users are torn between fear of malware and hope for a message from a secret admirer, Mr Worthen continued.
Research published today by Google revealed one in three respondents to their survey had used email to send a love letter, meaning it could be hard to sort the threats from the genuine messages.
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