Microsoft urged customers to immediately apply a free repairing patch from its website http://www.microsoft.com/security/. The company cautioned that hackers could sieze control over a victims computer by attacking those flaws which affect WINDOWS TECHNOLOGY  that allows computers to communicate with others across a network.

"We definitely want people to apply this one said Jeff Jones Microsoft Senior Director for trustworthy computing"

NEW BLASTER-LIKE ATTACK FEARED

Outside experts said some flaws were nearly identical to problems exploited by the Blaster Worm which spread last month with devastating damage.Computer users who applied an earlier patch in July to protect themselves still must install the new patch from Microsoft.

This was at the MSN site if you want to read the whole article STACEY GIRL