[pchelpers] News:Microsoft Yanks Fake Security Software

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

Microsoft said that the anti-malware tool it pushes to Windows users as
part of Patch Tuesday removed fake security software from nearly a
million PCs during nine days this month.

In a post to the company's malware protection center blog on Wednesday,
three of Microsoft's security researchers spelled out the impact this
month's edition of the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has had on
phony security software. In the period from Nov. 11 to Nov. 19, said
Scott Wu, Scott Molenkamp and Hamish O'Dea, MSRT purged more than
994,000 machines of what the tool recognizes as "W32/FakeSecSen," the
malware label for a broad range of bogus security program with names
such as "Advanced Antivirus," "Spyware Preventer," "Ultimate Antivirus
2008" and "XPert Antivirus."

More here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/154378/microsoft_security.html?tk=rss_news
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