From what I've read the blaster worm codenamed "w32.MSblast" has spread to tens of thousands of computers (125,000 according to Norton AV publisher Symantec) all over the world.

Somehow I got this message from the gods of wisdom to download the Windows patches the same day I read about them on CNET News. I think media today wastes too much time talking about basketball stars raping young girls. They should instead have told the millions of people using the affected OSs about the dangers of leaving their systems unpatched.

That virus' writer was no less of an asshole than the coders who left the flaws unchecked in MS Windows in the first place. Even I know that all of MS's product domain names like windows.com or internetexplorer.com actually point to subdirectories or subdomains on Microsoft.com. He hardcoded the victim of his DoS attack as windowsupdate.com which points to windowsupdate.microsoft.com. You see, people who get hold of how flaws technically work can write lame viruses, but u need brains to figure out the best network node to attack. That attack was supposed to happen today, but MS had already taken windowsupdate.com out of their DNS table making that address unreachable.

Although I wasn't much affected with this one, except for helping my friend get rid of the random reboots the virus was causing due to it's overloading RPCs, I hate when spreading worms cause internet bottlenecks, slowing down the network and sometimes even making parts of it unreachable. Btw, I read at the Tech Observer blog yesterday that Microsoft is going to release a better installer and updater which will rid this planet of the patching curse. Hopefully I'd say.

Anyway, hopefully everything should be back to normal soon.

After that we start waiting for the next big fat worm. Fuck.