Interesting that Microsoft has exact numbers. Yet another Microsoft product that phones home. Joe _____ 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-ee2421d f294a/WindowsRemovalToolWP.doc Jim Kenzig <mailto:web%20at%20kenzig.com> CEO The Kenzig Group http://www.kenzig.com <http://www.kenzig.com/> Sponsorships Available! <http://www.kenzig.com/217/227/index.html> Blog: http://www.techblink.com <http://www.techblink.com/> Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com <http://www.thinhelp.com/> Windows Vista: http://www.VistaPop.com <http://www.vistapop.com/> Virtualization: http://www.virtualize-it.com <http://www.virtualize-it.com/> Games: http://www.stressedpuppy.com <http://www.stressedpuppy.com/>
