Stay Safe !
how you know you've got the virus (worm, actually) is if your PC reboots itself every few minutes.
ha ha... looks like the worm author screwed up... he wanted it to cause a flood of connections (denial of service) to the microsoft update site, but used the WRONG URL! ... so microsoft disabled the invalid address (they'd been redirecting traffic to the real site). from AP just in the last hour:
The worm caused computers to reboot frequently or disrupted users' browsing the Internet. But it also packed a second punch: starting at midnight local time on Aug. 16, infected computers that have not cleaned up the virus will in effect turn into a legion of zombies instructed to repeatedly call up a Microsoft Web site that houses the software patch. With so much traffic flooding the network, the site could be unreachable and computer users would be unable to access the patch.
But there's a flaw. The worm instructed computers to call up http://windowsupdate.com — which is an incorrect address for reaching the actual Microsoft Web site that houses the software patch. Although Microsoft has long redirected those who visited that incorrect address to the real site — http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com — the company disabled the automatic redirection Thursday in preparation for the onslaught of infected computers.
Microsoft's real Web site should still be accessible to users, said Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwall. However, those who don't know the correct address may be confused and believe that the so-called "denial of service" attack worked. The company is taking other measures to keep its site up and running, he said, although he declined to give specifics.