And this time, it's bringing a worm. At this point, the estimate of infected systems is at around 8 million according to F-Prot. I've not seen an infection yet myself, knock on wood, but considering:
A.) That there was more than enough warning with Microsoft flailing their arms over a serious out-of-band patch on 10/23/2008, plus at least one, probably two Patch Tuesdays since the patch was released.
B.) This worm only spreads over corporate and local networks -- networks that are supposed to be managed by professionals.
The numbers are disheartening to say the least.
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Edit: Microsoft has a helpful portal for this worm. Ars Technica also has a great article, quoting an infection rate of around 1.1 million PCs for the last 24 hours.
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