I don't know if anyone posted this, but I'm sure it's news most everyone here should probably know.
From the DMXzone.com Newsletter:
Massive microsoft security flaw discovered. In a shock
announcement , it was announced that users of all Windows machines running anything other than ME should patch immediately or "an attacker could change Web pages, reformat the hard disk, or add new users to the local administrators group". Assuming you think that it might not be A Good Thing for that to happen, you'll want get the
patch. Who would've thought it. (Part 8787 in a series of 9409237483823)