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I found it funny that the virus contained but never displayed this bit of text..
"I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!
billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!"

The pacth for this problem was released July 16th by microsoft and since then 4 updates have been made to it. The reason I said it was a flick in the balls to MS is that despite having patched the problem the whole issue of security and bugs in MS software has been thrown in to the news AGAIN by this virus. The main problem is really with the release of information on security patches, your average home uer is unlikely to ever know about them until it's too late. There are two options to this:-

1. Software companies (not just MS) need to do more work on testing software prior to release... you have to remember that it's impossible to track down every possible bug.

2. When there is such a critical secuirty flaw discovered people need to be made aware of them so that protection can be in place before a hacker/virus writer can exploit them.

I doubt either will ever happen really since it is impossible in such complex software to track and fix every problem..... and of course it's usualy the hackers/virus writers that find these flaws first.

oh well it keeps life interesting

by the way this virus now has two variants
W32.Blaster.B.Worm
W32.Blaster.C.Worm

Now that's just silly !