I got the same thing this morning on my work computer on the CNN web site.
Turns out it was an AFLAC advertisement.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:52 AM, archer <arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Compaq laptop, WinXP, started "quacking" with a metallic sort of  quack.
> Tracked it down to an individuals submission to a Yahoogroups discussion
> list that I downloaded.
> The message is now sitting on the Inbox screen in Outlook Express unopened.
> If the message is highlighted it starts quacking.  If the message is opened
> it starts quacking.
> I checked Google and found other who had the same experience, but no one
> had a definite answer to what was causing it.
> There is a red exclamation point over to the left of the message in Outlook
> Express, but I've forgotten what that exclamation point column means.
> One person on Google said he was having the problem all the time, so I'm
> wondering if deleting it to the Delete file and then deleting it from that
> file would be taking a chance of it spreading to other areas of the
> computer?
> The message went right by AVG antivirus with no problem.  There isn't much
> about it on the 'net apparently.  All Snopes mentions is a Webkinz virus
> with a "Mr. Quack".
> All info appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Gerry Archer
> '83 300D and 240D
>
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