Is it just my imagination, or has the volume of spam and virus-laden e-mail nearly quadrupled in the past two weeks? I’ve been getting hit by this kind of e-mail twice a day, every day, but I’m awfully glad my anti-virus software keeps catching it.

The Windows virus, called Sobig-C, forwards itself to any addresses found on the infected computer, using several faked addresses such as bill@microsoft.com.[...]

People have been warned to be on the lookout for e-mails containing subject lines such as “Re: Movie”, “Re: Approved”, or “Re: Your application”, with the message “Please see the attached file”.

The worm uses a number of different attachment names including “screensaver.scr”, “movie.pif” and “documents.pif”.