I just one of those horrible "What if" thoughts...
What if a spammer gets infected with a virus like Sobig?
His/her database of millions of harvested email addresses would cause all hell to break loose.
BTW, has anyone read about the new DOS/DDOS attacks against spam blacklisters, causing mailservers to bounce legitimate mail because they can`t OK the source`s server against the lists.
Seems a bit odd, a new virus doing the rounds, and a DOS attack at the same time. Maybe that`s the extra payload for Sobig that they haven`t been able to decode yet?