[Golden Eagle]

perhaps a "white hat" in some other country could send out an update that kills this thing, and then deletes itself.

I think that may be welchia. I'm not in favor of much vigilante justice, there's enough lose cannons out there as it is. And there's a tremendous amount of bluring of the lines between the "black hats" and the "white hats" right now, including these 'security firms' that release newly found exploits straight onto the open internet without first notifying the vendors and giving them a chance to build a patch first. But you can't have a "mob rules" world out there, which it is turning into.

[tacticalogic]

That's the one. I'm on a dialup, and when blaster hit, I got infected twice during the process of trying to d/l the update. After the second time I got fed up with it and created a 0 byte file in my Windows directory, named it msblast.exe, and made it read only.