A new, icky worm is on the move. It is propigated through e-mail, but can be removed (as its predecessor, the blaster worm). The new variety of worm spreads by scanning randomly-chosen IP addresses for vulnerable systems.
Here’s the story , and here’s the removal tool from symantec , should you be unfortunate enough to have caught it.
Windows Updates
People that were current with their Windows updates will not get this virus. Everyone should set windows to auto-update or manually update Windows weekly.