the day after Microsoft publicly announce a massive security hole in windows, lots of exploits turn up attempting to get one over on people who haven't patched it yet.

Dear me, dear me, another end-of-times, Internet Armageddon, everything is going to melt down worm thingy that won't be able to get past my firewall either.

Color me utterly shellshocked. I'm off to stock up on canned foods - sometime next year.

Towards the end of the article there's a suggestion that at least one of these worms was not produced "the day after" MS went public, but somewhat earlier. I think *that's* the surprise, at least for some people. The bad guys appear to have found this hole first.