D3000 Dead Pixel?

[Snowtographer]

Is this a dead or bad/malfunctioning pixel? It's always in the same spot, and it's always full white. I can't imagine it's anything physical on the surface of the sensor because it shows up on black parts of images and it appears to have clearly defined edges. I attached 2 tight crops showing it. I've been shooting film for years but this is my first digital camera, let alone DSLR, so I just have no experience and no idea what this could be. What would be the best course of action here? The camera is a week old..

 

[KmH]

Yep. Looks like a dead pixel. Hot pixels (usually red) are more common.

Since the image sensor has 10.2 million pixels, the law of averages says some of them won't work.
1 out of 10,200,000 is something like a 99.9999999% reliability rate, which is pretty awesome.

 

[Snowtographer]

Well, thank god for MS Paint.

 

[KmH]

And for Internet search engines - fixing DSLR dead or hot pixel issues - Bing

 

[Snowtographer]

Clicked on the first link, and it's fixed already.

Take that, Google!

Thank you so much for your help