Electronically Transmitted Disease

[SOteric]

I've spent the better part of the afternoon trying to clean a worm off my hard drive. Sneaky bastards.

There is apparently a bug in the Windows XP buffer over-run that allows something called 'blaster' to wiggle its way into your stuff and crash your system.

If I had known, I would have downloaded the patch.

People who are running any of the newer Windows () products may want to visit this site:

http://msn.com.com/4520-6600_16-5062407.html?part=msn&subj=ns&tag=msn_home

and download the patch. I like y'all too much to want to have you go through an afternoon such as have I.

According to the remediation sites I've read, it's important for anyone who may have been exposed to patch this and/or remove the worm from their hard drive before the end of August, or before the 16th of any month. It's set to wreck particular havoc after those dates.

Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going for a bit of the ETD penicillin.