I stumbled upon this article today: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/06/the-enemy-within/8098 and was scared to death by it. Has anyone else heard of this worm? What do you guys think about it?

All my information comes from this article so I might not see everything, but heres what I see it as. This is a worm released to take over a large number of computers for some as yet unknown nefarious purpose. This purpose could be almost anything possible. From Taking down the US governments computers to spamming the entire world. It is almost impossible to stop and is extremely resilient and are to protect from. IT can easily sneak into your computer through any outside interface. IT appears to only affect Windows though. I am so glad I have linux now

It's an awesome worm that existed at the turn of the century.
That is, forget about it.

According to the article it wsa released in 2008 and is still in existence and has been improved many times to foil an international group trying to stop it

I still remember hearing about that... Didn't do much except suddenly drop in everywhere (probably our old XP box too), but it caused a nice little panic. If you have Vista or above (or NT or below, or Mac or Linux), you're fine. From this one.