Today’s Windows worm, brought to you by the letters Plug and Play, is the worm Zotob. Zotob attacks a flaw in the Windows “Plug and Play” feature, and also is known by the name of the program it leaves on your hard drive, “Botzor.exe.”

Zotob (or Botzor.exe) happily munches through holes in the Plug and Play flaws in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2k, and XP (but not properly patched versions of XP Service Pack 2), where it will prevent you from accessing online assistance at your anti-virus vendor’s Web site, and, more insidiously, where it will connect to an IRC server, providing hackers access to and control over your system.

According to a statement issued by Microsoft…

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