Before you panic, you only have to worry about this if you are using Microsoft's software; Internet Explorer v.5 and/or the Outlook mail program. So far it has NOT been reported "in the wild", having only been sent to interested parties in the computer industry (virus companies, Microsoft, etc.), evidently just to prove it could be done.

You can get the full story at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0.4586.1018067.00.html .

There is a security "patch" available to possibly fix the problem at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com .

If you use Netscape or any earlier version of Internet Explorer without Active X enabled, you will not have to worry about this.