Jacki...
I would almost bet money that this virus originated from some young kid somewhere...I doubt very seriously that a fellow CableDawg is to blame... The virus gets ahold of your address book and like something that is trying to survive, it just keeps replicating by stealing your contacts and a subject line from one of your previous out-going e-mails..(Or something like that ) Most of the time you'll never realize it's doing anything until it's way too late.
Eventually the fix for it will be everywhere and it will kinda die out...
Hopefully !!
Later,
SD