The news finally hits the fan

The Microsoft RPC security disaster continues to explode all over the net. The latest version of the exploit is a worm that is being labelled the W32/Blaster Worm. It reproduces itself onto machines it finds that are vulnerable and can source a denial-of-service attack against Microsoft's Windows Update site. Sigh. At present this is finally hitting the commercial networks as well as academic sites - all of Comcast (our major cable internet provider) in the Northwest has been down since yesterday, which they attribute to this worm. I saw one estimate that 7% of all the traffic on the Internet 2 backbone yesterday was attributed to this worm - that's HUGE!

When will the madness end?