A slight exaggeration, perhaps, but it's certainly spreading like crazy. There ARE benefits in diversity. I had 90 copies of it in my box this morning. We're on a WAN, so it spread really rapidly. All mail servers are shut down.
Someone has a lot of time.
Maybe Symantec can hire him or her. Normal people learn from their errors. After Melissa, lots of security specialists predicted that the worst had yet to come. Wake up, and start to think whether Microsoft should really stay your office-tool vendor. I Just had a COOL though.