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The Department of Homeland Security is warning of an imminent attack -- on your personal computer or your server at work. There is a patch available, but if enough users don't install it, the result could be the fastest-spreading destruction in Internet history.The problem lies with a security hole in the most popular versions of Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows operating system. Joshua Brown, chief security goon for The Motley Fool, says this one is particularly dangerous because it would give a hacker, in essence, "full control over a compromised system."Adding to the problem is the breadth of systems affected: Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.