Updated my office computer faster than I might have sans your warning, thanks a lot.
Interesting, I just received an e-mail that attempted to use Active-X. I've never seen that before. Fortunately, here at work, I have it disabled. I suspect this was using the exploit Craven mentioned. Thanks again for the heads up.
It was most likely someone's signature cjhsa.
It was spam. Subject "Helloooooooo".