posted 08-20-2003 04:24 AM
The virus did not actually come from contact@collectspace.com.collectSPACE runs off a Mac OS X server and is edited using a Mac OS X client, both unaffected by the Sobig virus which you have received.
The virus grabs e-mail addresses from several different locations on a computer, including the Windows address book and Internet cache, and sends e-mails to each one. The virus also forges the source of the message using a randomly selected e-mail address so that the infected message appears to come from someone else -- hence the appearance it came from contact@collectspace.com
You can read more about it here:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5065494.html
It is currently plaguing most of the space industry (I have literally received over 500 copies in the past 24 hours.) It appears that the virus is making its way through NASA as well...