Got this from our IS Department at work:

Over the weekend a new variant of the sober worm was released into the wild.
This worm has spread very fast and has already infected many computers
worldwide.

Hospice of Michigan computers accessing email using your outlook client are
fully protected from this worm. However, you may have noticed an increase in
the number of spam messages in your inbox that came over in German. These
messages are not viruses, but is the result of somebody else being affected by
the virus. What is happening is that somebody you know has been infected. The
virus is going through every name in their contact list and sending out spam
e-mails to you and everyone else they have listed. The worm also spoofs senders
names so it makes it next to impossible to tell who the email really came from.
Instead of looking like it came from your friend or relative, it'll have some
email address that also came from their contact list. Just as you are the one
receiving spam, their machine is also using you as a senders name to send spam
to other people. As a result an increase in delivery failure requests will be
sent to you. Mail servers receiving e-mail listed as
you as the sender are sending these deliver failure notifications to you
because it has no way of knowing otherwise that you are really not the sender.
Confusing, I know.

If you have a home pc, update your virus definition files to the latest
release. Perform a full scan on your computer. Please spread the word to your
friends and relatives, especially if you have been receiving German spam
messages. Chances are somebody you know has an infected machine.



Thank goodness for Isaac Newton or we'd all be floating on the ceiling!
















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