I am beginning to wonder if our ISPs are taking this as seriously as they might? I had hundreds if not thousands of port 135 hits, all from what I imagine to be my ISPs subnet. I tried three different ISPs, and the same thing was happening.

I am now getting "pinged" the hell out of from the same sources.............other addresses in my ISP's range. Which I take to be the Anti msblast virus?

I know absolutely zero about that side of things, but can't they (ISPs) do anything to stop it? It must be wasting an awful lot of bandwidth?

Apart from keeping our AV, Firewalls, Botkillers and trojan seekers up to date and running them regularly, I don't see what else us mere mortals can do.....except try to educate people around us to do the same and delete dodgy e-mails?

There is a tool:

Please visit http://www.internals.com for updates.
Notice:
At this time, MailControl can only detect emails sent through SMTP. If your email client is configured to work with Microsoft Exchange Server, MailControl will not intercept emails sent from your computer.

Which acts as a sort of e-mail firewall, and blocks attempts to send stuff out. Unfortunately it does not seem to be at "industrial strengh" yet, as it only works with SMTP. If the next one has spoof e-mails in its repertoire, this may help private users (it's free!) and slow it down a bit.

What really frustrates me is that none of my boxes has been infected, but from the number of hits I have been getting, there must be an awful lot of infected boxes out there......why?....

I think that if we can find the answer to my last question and address that, we will have our answer?

Just my £0.02 worth

cheers