>>>Hi Mike,
>>>
>>>You may be the exception :-) Within 10 minutes of first turning on our DSL line here, one unpatched machine got the Blaster - mine. Everyone else was up to date, firewall up to par, etc.
>>
>>Was that Microsofts fault?
>
>Yep - their RPC vulnerability - not mine.

Which they had fixed and provided a patch for that you didn't see fit to install.