If you use a firewall from Black Ice or Real Secure then you better disable it. This aint no email virus; it breaks through these firewalls and tricks them into killing your harddrive to the point where the PC has to be rebuilt. No shit!
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...1310_2004mar20
I would disable any firewall right now because these two may just be the initial ones affected.