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> > >Has anyone besides me been receiving a flood of infected emails?
> > >
> > >All the emails have the same subject lines:
> > >
> > >Thank you!
> > >RE: That movie
> > >RE: RE: My Details
> > >RE: RE: My Details
> > >RE: Details
> > >RE: Wicked Screensaver
> > >RE: Approved
> > >RE: Your application
> > >
> > >But are from different users.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > I get loads of these all the time (I run a mailing list)
> > 
> > but today, yes I have had an unusually large amount
> > 

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sobigf.html
we're getting about 100 an hour coming in from all sorts of sources.

Vince