My ADSL provider (Sweden's biggest phone co) got hit, hard. Almost all their servers went down, including customer services, so they couldn't even inform about it except thru media! All went down last night (17 hours ago). My router and HW firewall crashed, needed a factory reset. My SW firewall (PC-Cillin) recorded about 75 hits in a half hour when I connected using an old phone modem this morning... yuck. But I didn't get infected. It's worth having all that protection. The Blaster worm (this outbreak) hits XP and 2000 PCs thru ports 135 and 137. Close them down. And get the MS fix. Get it before the 16th. That is when all the world's infected PCs will hit the MS site (the whole point of the virus). Apparently each infected PC will poll the MS update site every 20 milliseconds, totally overloading it. It's going to be fun, (not). Hope MS is working on it! :] Fish