Okay, boys and girls, there's yet another virus on the loose, and apparently this one's a biggie:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=808&u=/dowjones/20030820/bs_dowjones/200308201654001134&printer=1

If you don't yet have a firewall installed, PLEASE get something. I'd recommend the free "Zonealarm" at www.zonealarm.com. You can buy the fancy version, but the simple free one (use the following link) is plenty good enough:

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp;jsessionid=1ESNRDFKXpZfHedYQjqCBUIZxPKChWoXpjqlm6BhjAxWvTjqXFBJ!1015293934!-1062696903!7551!7552!-1168702126!-1062696905!7551!7552

XP supposedly has a very simple firewall, but from what I've read it's not much better than nothing at all.