If you get an e-card or an email about a deadly storm or other dramatic event, don't open the attachment.  In fact don't open any attachement that you are not expecting. The Storm is being called a worm, but it is actually a bot being used to control a network of computers made up of the computers of unsusepcting users. Estimates are that over a million computers have already been infected and the creator of this evil bot is constantly adapting the Storm to keep ahead of anti-virus manufacturers. So the Storm keeps growing.

Storm e-mail worm evolves as it wreaks havoc on Net

August 3, 2007..........USA Today