Security firms and Homeland Security within the U.S is warning everyone of a new large scale attack on the Internet that's currently under way. Security firms say that thousands of web sites have already been infected by a virus. If a user goes to a web site which has been infected, the user will become infected if running Internet Explorer. The virus takes advantage of an exploit in Internet Explorer, an exploit that Microsoft has yet to fix. Once a end-user has been infected with the virus, their computer will be used to send spam to millions of people. NetSec, one of the large security firms, said there are some well known sites already infected but they declined to name the affected Web sites for liability reasons but said they are "big, big sites." Read more