Well, the internet is starting to get back to normal finally (although UUNET looks like they still have problems). This one can't be totally blamed on Microsoft though. They released a patch for SQL Server last year, there's just a bunch of admins who don't patch (which MS is sorta responsible for by claiming they don't need "expensive admins"). The fact that MSDE is installed by everything, listens on the nework when it probably doesn't have to, and is vulnerable even though most people don't know it's installed is something Microsoft and other vendors who install it probably should have dealt with better though (it should have been listed that half of their products install MSDE).