I checked my yahoo mail this morning, and found that the inbox was filled with over 6Mb of emails with attachments overnight, all from different senders, but more or less the same subject line. Suspecting the big trouble, I went to cnn.com, and sure enough, it's one of the top stories today:
SoBig.F breaks virus speed records Looks like this prticular virus is much more sophisticated than the others, -- I got a few system admin messages informing me that the email with the virus was sent from my email address, yet I know for sure that I never opened the attachment of the mail message. It is as though the virus is able to activate itself when you open the mail message itself.
It's probably exploiting one of those known
Unpatched IE security holes Very troubling!