First, I apologise for the title. I didn’t mean it, it meant nothing to me, I was drunk…

Second, if you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new uber-worm spreading through the ‘net at the moment, called w32.Blaster by Symantec or Lovsan by McAfee. This one is getting a lot of airtime during the news, even though anyone patching their system even slightly regularly should have have already closed the vulnerability that the worm uses.

Normally I find out about these threats a few days to a week after they hit the fan, but today I actually tech’d system suffering from a W32.Blaster infection, so I’m quite happy really.

The widespread outbreak does go to show just how many people run around with systems running Microsoft products and not updating them via http://windowsupdate.com/. Live and Learn I guess.

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