I guess lots of folks still don't patch. CNN has a current article that this worm has currently infected 8 million PCs. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/01/16/virus.downadup/index.html MS has released new virus alerts about it, too, with nice descriptions of symptoms. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962007 http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Entry.aspx?Name=Win32/Conficker The patch was released to MS auto-updates in late October - my notes show 10/29/08. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx Just fyi... ~ Esther