[pchelpers] News:Microsoft kicks fake security software off 400,000 PCs

December's campaign against fake security software targeted rogue
application 'Antivirus 2009'
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
December 24, 2008
In the second month of a campaign against fake security software,
Microsoft has booted the rogue application "Antivirus 2009" from almost
400,000 PCs, the company recently claimed.

December's version of the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), a free
utility that Microsoft pushes to Windows users as part of Patch
Tuesday , targeted one of the most popular phony security app, Antivirus
2009. According to Microsoft, the MSRT erased the fake from over 394,000
PCs in the first nine days after it released this month's edition on
Dec. 9.

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