You've heard, perhaps, of "Just in Time" (JIT) compiling?

Well, Just Almost in Time is what MessySoft's aiming for with its update—today—of its Malware Removal Tool to remove the "Zotob" worm family. Yeh, yeh. M$ released a security patch juuust (barely) before a worm to exploit a M$-created hole hit. And yeh, if users and IT departments had been on the ball, there woulda been NO impact. But. The day before M$ released a security patch, my anti-virus software updated with yet another (of several earlier) sigfiles to prevent a "Zotob" worm infection. So, unpatched or not, I was protected. By a lil Czech company. Before MessySoft even got around to "fixing" the problem.