LOL. Microsoft has disclosed it. The problem is that most people who
complain about it don't read the EULA! Come on guys. Quit your bitching if
you aren't going to bother to read what is right in front of your eyes.
Heck, Microsoft discloses the fact that it sends back information to them
right on their KB too. Look at article ID 890830. How else do you think
any of the virus companies out there get the numbers they quote?
As long as you are not using pirated copies of their operating systems there
should be no worries. :)
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Shonk
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:34 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from
Malicious Software removal tool
No… That's besides the point… The point is this is all being done without
proper disclosure.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:11 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from
Malicious Software removal tool
Oh and like every other antivirus tool from other vendors on the planet
doesn't??? Are you that naive?
Joe Shonk l.com> wrote:
Interesting that Microsoft has exact numbers… Yet another Microsoft product
that phones home.
Joe
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Kenzig http://ThinHelp.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:17 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Interesting read: Microsoft Malware report from Malicious
Software removal tool
Microsoft has released an interesting report on some results from their
Malicious Software Removal tool. There are some pretty shocking results of
the amount of virii this thing has cleaned. For example 4.4 million
removals of Win32/Rbot, another interesting statistic..the tool cleaned one
computer that had over 251 variants of malware. I can only imagine what that
person was doing on the web. : )
Article about it here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1975563,00.asp
See the full report from Microsoft here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/e/3de2470b-ab9a-4a7f-b760-ee2421df294a/WindowsRemovalToolWP.doc
