an icepick through the keyhole

A theory on why Microsoft is giving us the "Don't worry, just wait" line:

For the average idiot who runs Windows out of the box, uses Internet Explorer, and reads every email with Outlook, this isn't much different from the usual viruses and worms.

For those of us who know what we're doing, we realize that this exploit threatens our computers in spite of doing all the things that normally make us relatively safe. But we're not Microsoft's target market.

An alternative theory: They're still all hung over from New Year's.