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More than that - I got a g4 along with my windows/linux/netware/bsd boxes. Great machine. I also have a pix firewall and keep every port blocked I don't need. If you have and unpatched system and those ports open, you deserve this virus.

Just to give an idea of how these viruses cost businesses money.

Here at our 800 bed hospital. This virus started today on a single PC, probably thru an email attachment. This PC in turn, via the RPC vulnerability, infected Windows Servers running the Patient Clinical Information System. This resulted in the Clinical system being down for several hours. I wish the author of the virus was here waiting for a lab result to identify a deadly illness.

Q:Why weren't the Windows Servers properly patched?
A: Because the software vendor has only tested the code on an earlier Service Pack version and will not support servers with the patch!