[Auntie Mame]

Hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but I understand that this "worm" infects your computer from surfing the internet. It only affects computers running Windows 2000 and XP. It is NOT a virus, it is a serious flaw in these two operating systems.

How to tell if you've got the worm? Your computer won't work well on the web, constanting shutting down. However, it affected my daughter's computer differently. Her CD drives wouldn't work and her fixit guy told her before she brought it in for repair to download the patch and see if that did the trick. She did and now everything works fine.

[Neets]

You are absolutely correct about what OS's it affects.

We have to down load critical updates every two weeks now because of these things.