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Today and yesterday everyone was yapping about the new worm taking advantage of a well known flaw in Microsoft software. It's not being discussed quite as chicken little as the slammer worm of January was, but still elevated to "run around in a panic" status. The Internet itself is rarely affected by these worms. The idiots who don't know how to patch their servers or use firewalls are the real victims and fortunately the media has been making an effort to inform rather than sensationalize. Since I'm striving to better inform rather than rant, I've included a few useful links you can use to determine if you really should run around in a panic. As a note: all of these sites only registered a small increase in backbone traffic.

• Internet Health Report
• Internet Storm Center