Yeah, BOAC, I found my way (on my wireless laptop - not affected by the bug) to the Norton site and noted the August 2005 comment. Pointed it out to the tech help that erased the problem for me.
To be fair(ish) to Norton - it DID spot the worm entering, and it DID tell me.
I don't know if somebody has written a workaround but Norton was not able to stop the bug from loading - which I fear had something to do with that warning that "Some program is trying to alter your Windows setting. To prevent this, please insert your Windows Service Pack 2 disk". There was no way out from that - as soon as you click the close button on the Norton warning window - Game Over, it's in there.
So just how do you get a CD of SP2?