Bernd> Looks like another windows worm. Now they seem to come with a Bernd> more sofisticated 'payload'. I am sure that will increase in the Bernd> future. It is just the beginning ...
Indeed. This turns out to be the Sober.Q worm. Sober.P infected gazillions of machines with its "free world cup tickets" scam, but didn't directly do anything. Apparently Friday it started upgrading itself to Sober.Q which sent out the massive spread of right-wing racist spam. Mail.python.org was receiving about 15 spams per minute for an extended period of time - at least 12 hours, probably much longer - on Saturday. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list