I’ve been hearing recently talk of a possible virus outbreak that is due to a recently found flaw in Windows 2000 and up (including XP SP2). Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory warning of Win32/Graweg which exploits code in Augusts set of patches.
The Microsoft Security Response Alliance partners as well as our own internal teams have determined that there is not widespread customer impact and have rated Win32/Graweb as a Low threat. At this time it does not appear to be a self-replicating internet-wide worm.
Microsoft continues to recommend that customers apply the August updates as soon as possible with additional urgency and consideration given to the update detailed in MS06-040.
While we can only watch and wait to see if anything would come of it, it is still a good idea to update. You should be doing it anyway.
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