Speaking of security, there's a new Sober worm variant that seems to have suckered the masses into proliferating it. It apparently arrives in an email attachment .zip file, inside of which is a .pif file.

"Sober.P, first detected on Monday, now accounts for 77 percent of all viruses detected by Sophos's threat-monitoring stations worldwide, the British security company said on Tuesday. At the same time, Kaspersky Lab, a Russian maker of antivirus software designed to combat such threats, described the worm's spread in Western Europe as an 'epidemic.'"