You windows apologists are really lucky that none of these worms that are still out there feeding on windows users hasn't really been as destructive as they could be. It would have been really easy to make this worm attempt to infect computers for a few days and then fdisk the hard disk. If the virus writer had been smart enough to put an entry in the hosts table for the microsoft update site that pointed to 127.0.0.1, most windows users would have not been able to get the patch. It was also really stupid for the virus to force a reboot, as that was a telltale clue that something was amiss. If a reboot was necessary, it should have just waited until the user rebooted on his own as is an extremely common occurrence on windows boxes.
Like I said, y'all have been extremely lucky that the virus writers didn't really intend widespread damage.