Not only do many of Microsoft related blogs seem to be down, but the mother of all sites, Google, seems to be down as well.
Reports are trickling in that it seems to be a new virus doing the rounds ... apparently it uses google to lookup information. Google is trying to block requests that seem to be malicious in origin, but in the process, they're blocking me too :-(
I hope they catch these assholes. I actually found that it took more effort than I would have imagined to think up what other search engine might be able to help me out ...