public service announcement

[smileswhf]

A prolific new Windows-based worm appears to have struck overnight. This worm propagates via a large number of mechanisms, but at least one vector uses Windows operating system vulneraiblities for which patches are available. If you haven't run windows update recently, now would be an excellent time to do so. See http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gaobot.adx.html for details.