Microsoft added its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) for November to target fake security software (that has plagued Windows users all over the world. Looks like tool is doing its job. Last Wednesday Microsoft released some results in its Malware Protection Center Blog. According to the results nearly a million PCs were cleaned of fake security software (recognized as "W32/FakeSecSen by MSRT) during the period from November 11 to November 19.
This is one of the biggest clean-up job that Microsoft has ever done. In June 2008, MSRT sniffed out 1.2 million PCs infected with a family of password stealers, while in February, it scrubbed the Vundo Trojan from about a million machines. Over several months at the end of last year, MSRT hit the then-notorious Storm Trojan hard, cleaning it from a half-million PCs.
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